Wanda Sykes Quotes
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.Wanda Sykes
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
Carly Fiorina -
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
Dan Chaon -
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom -
I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
Maggie Cheung -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
Kacey Musgraves
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
Haley Bennett -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman -
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key -
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
Randy Neugebauer -
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller -
I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
Dani Shapiro
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
Ted Cruz -
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
Tariq Ali -
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Paracelsus -
I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
Natasha Trethewey
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I work 110-hour weeks.
Joe Lonsdale -
I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
Kara Swisher -
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
Ornette Coleman -
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
Ian Mckellen -
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.
Marian Wright Edelman -
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
Wanda Sykes