"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."

-- Wanda Sykes

#Firsts Quotes #Behinds Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.”
“Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.”

Source : Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”
“The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.”
“Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.”
“Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.”
“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”

Source : "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".
“When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.”
“The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.”

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