Wanda Sykes Quotes

My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

Wanda Sykes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

LifeStartRealityMy LifeYouNews

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Gielgud

StyleSpeakDoubtBedWillEnglish

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Max Baucus

HealthCareWorryYouIncomeYour

America needs a restart. It has long devoted its energies to solving its many big problems - unequal opportunity, crumbling infrastructure, lagging education, inadequate training in a changing economy, and threats to peace around the world.

Stanley A. McChrystal

EducationOpportunityPeaceTraining

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Simon Van Booy

LoveDeathValueMeWorldThink

I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

Rupert Friend

LoveLearningLanguageThingsWaltz

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

CultureMindSpiritWidening

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

Donna Lynne Champlin

FriendJobNew YorkCityCollegeMe

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

Debbie Reynolds

OpinionClothesMoviesRealismOff

I walk four miles three or four times a week.

Cheryl Ladd

WalkWeekThreeMilesFourTimes

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

Annie Lennox

BeautifulMeGayDoneFeminismSee

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Marta Kristen

FatherMotherLiveTeacherBorn

If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.

Lin Dan

GreatTreatYouPlayNothingAim

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Wanda Sykes