Wanda Sykes Quotes
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
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Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
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Response when asked by a reporter if his ‘relationship with the governor is deteriorating' No, I think it’s pretty much consistent.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.