Wanda Sykes Quotes
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.
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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos
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You must know what you are capable of.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.