Wanda Sykes Quotes

I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

Wanda Sykes

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Know
  • Week
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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Important
  • True
  • Importance

• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • First

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Opinion

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • Real
  • Help

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Woman
  • Drink
  • Her

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Freedom

• Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Passion

• The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous - just insane.

  

  Mike Schultz
  • Because
  • Ridiculous
  • Insane

• Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Failure
  • Weapons
  • Destroying

• Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt