Wanda Sykes Quotes

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

Wanda Sykes

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I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

Jennifer Egan

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My dad was the chaplain at Mankato State University, and my mom worked in the bookstore. We lived just off-campus. Then we moved to the suburbs of Minneapolis, to New Hope, which is where I went to high school.

Steve Zahn

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When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.

Ron Conway

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After all these years in the business, I really feel that actors are used. People treat actors worse than they treat children. It's always, 'Do me a favor,' it's always, 'Help me out,' it's always, 'You carry the load,' and then they don't want to admit what you've done.

Diane Ladd

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Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Christine Pelosi

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I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Shekhar Kapur

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I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

Tia Carrere

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The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

Tim Ferriss

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After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

Rick Pitino

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I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.

Ryan Holmes

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I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

Marilyn Manson

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The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

Luvvie Ajayi

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