Wanda Sykes Quotes
I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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I wouldn't say I'm a hostile person.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
