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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
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Portsmouth
Virginia
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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
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I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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I had top-secret clearance and everything. I was working on a couple of projects that would keep me involved in Desert Storm. I was in the mix, which is scary.
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I'm always thinking of stuff I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' - I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.
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When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.
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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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