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.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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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.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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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.
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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.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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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.
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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.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
