People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.
I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.
Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.