Wanda Sykes Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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Always follow your heart ... But take your brain with you too.... Be smart.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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I am starting to feel more comfortable as a woman in the entertainment industry because of the #MeToo movement, so I feel so proud of all the women that came forward and who are fighting for us.
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Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.
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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
