Wanda Sykes Quotes

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

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• I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • Research
  • Medical

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Courage

• Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Light
  • Path

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• Reading is power. Reading is life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Power
  • Reading

• I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • World
  • Friends
  • Leader

• Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • America
  • Health
  • Crazy

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • School
  • Parents
  • Me

• No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Equal
  • Close

• It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Character
  • War

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Done

• A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Stress

• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Software

• Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Morning
  • Scripture
  • Golden Rule

• It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Voice
  • Own