Wanda Sykes Quotes
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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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.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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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.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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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.
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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.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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.
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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.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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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.
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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.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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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.
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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.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
