Wanda Sykes Quotes
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'
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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
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You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'
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There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
