Wanda Sykes Quotes
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.
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It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
