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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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
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Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.
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I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.
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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.
