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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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?
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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
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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.
