Wanda Sykes Quotes

I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.

Wanda Sykes

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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

Amandla Stenberg

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As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.

Stephen M. Ross

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With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

Amy Heckerling

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The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.

Simon McBurney

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Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Tony Scott

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Never insult anyone by accident.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.

Mary Beard

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There is an enormous amount of evidence that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is doing his best to develop more lethal weapons, and funds and supports terrorism.

Mike Pence

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Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

Jason Reitman

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One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

Demi Lovato

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That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

Debbie Harry

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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

Christopher Buckley

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