Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jo...
CHARLES J. SYKES Holland-Dozier-Holland were able to package gospel in such a way that it was really camouflaged, ......
CHARLES SYKES Holland-Dozier-Holland were able to package gospel in such a way that it was really camouflaged. The...
CHARLES SYKES It pushed the sound up to the edge and caused a little bit of a strain. That was part of the (H-D-H)...
CHARLES SYKES I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord&#...
WANDA SYKES Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.
ALVIN SYKES The Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act that is before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives has ...
ALVIN SYKES The FBI originally thought he was one of the three.
ALVIN SYKES One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civi...
ALVIN SYKES At our request, we have asked the federal government to create a unit on unsolved Civil Rights murde...
ALVIN SYKES Already around the world, Philadelphia means something different than it did a month ago. You see it...
ALVIN SYKES Joyce Chiles made this a real investigation with real consequences.
ALVIN SYKES I did not know there were people you could go to for help.
ALVIN SYKES If it was good enough for Kennedy, and it was good enough for King, it was good enough for Emmett Ti...
ALVIN SYKES Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing.
ALVIN SYKES If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two b...
BRYAN SYKES We will select volunteers from those two branches,
BRYAN SYKES But generally this is the kind of name that, from experience, has one or very few founders.
BRYAN SYKES If it's a single family with one original founder, then most of them will have the same Y chromosome...
BRYAN SYKES There are several interesting questions such as was there one original 'father' Christmas or were th...
BRYAN SYKES By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ul...
BRYAN SYKES My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on...
WANDA SYKES I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doin...
WANDA SYKES Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
WANDA SYKES If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a...
WANDA SYKES And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
WANDA SYKES I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large g...
WANDA SYKES I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Let...
WANDA SYKES If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come b...
WANDA SYKES I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him ...
ERIC SYKES Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed ...
WANDA SYKES Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of arc...
BRYAN SYKES I know it sounds like the party line, but I just love doing this show, ... Larry is just an odd man,...
WANDA SYKES Monster-in-Law, I'm not going to say anything bad about that girl. Everybody picks on her. And she d...
WANDA SYKES It's fun coming back home. The crowds have so much love and support for me. They're really smart cro...
WANDA SYKES Of course, my mother would love for me to work clean,
WANDA SYKES Eighty percent of the ladies from our database have attended our tour socials and met with our Russi...
DAN SYKES Even though you feel different and look different when you're pregnant, you're essentially still the...
MELANIE SYKES Even from its beginnings, this business was based on love. We help bridge cultural and language barr...
DAN SYKES I got the job by walking into the director's office, ... I saw this guy behind a desk and said, 'Whe...
WANDA SYKES I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. ...
WANDA SYKES We have to get out there and touch the people and let them know that you are thinking about them and...
WANDA SYKES There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing....
WANDA SYKES Louis is so damn talented,
WANDA SYKES It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com...
WANDA SYKES But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep tal...
WANDA SYKES All these old guys, they were exactly the same on stage as off, and they couldn't help being comedia...
ERIC SYKES No, wait, here's a good bit.
ERIC SYKES There's no family allowance on the first child, you know.
ERIC SYKES It's a very sad day. I've always admired him. Everything he did had a very evocative ring, of someth...
ERIC SYKES I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he&...
WANDA SYKES Anastasia is a proud member of the American Society of Travel Agents and the Central and Eastern Eur...
DAN SYKES I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr...
WANDA SYKES The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't beli...
WANDA SYKES You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fi...
PLUM SYKES If I sing along a little fucking louder to a happy song I'll be alright.
OLI SYKES I'm glad there were no fatal technical flaws, and that they were able to find the money after all. B...
MARK SYKES However, in this city (San Francisco) that prides itself in being so progressive, it feels like we n...
CRYSTAL SYKES It's really unfortunate at a time when we should come together, something as simple as this.
LARRY SYKES It comes down to a point in time where you put aside your differences and thoughts and do what's rig...
LARRY SYKES What makes us different from consulting-type operations is that we are all manufacturing people. The...
LARRY SYKES Hold that thought. This sounds like the kind of conversation I’ll need pants for.” It
SAM SYKES Buy my book.
SAM SYKES The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.
SAM SYKES While violence was almost certainly the solution, Lenk knew he needed to apply it selectively.
SAM SYKES We played hard, but we didn't play smart.
JEFF SYKES We replaced seven starters from last year, so we thought at the beginning of the season we might be ...
JEFF SYKES Three-quarters of our offense was on the bench, and those guys just dug in hard and they played from...
JEFF SYKES We don't have anything to do with it.
JEFF SYKES To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
CHARLES J. GIVENS Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
CHARLES J. GIVENS Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until t...
CHARLES J. GIVENS The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, c...
CHARLES J. GIVENS The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategi...
CHARLES J. GIVENS Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting c...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the poi...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS 'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top ...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-loo...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum w...
CHARLES J. GIVENS Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal...
CHARLES J. GIVENS It is a matter of enormous pride to see two of our colleagues become Supreme Court justices. The Rea...
CHARLES J. COOPER The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a l...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and ...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS He's definitely a genius in terms of his intellectual capacities. It's awesome, it's really mind-bog...
CHARLES J. COOPER We were there to reverse course from the policies of the Carter administration, certainly. Everybody...
CHARLES J. COOPER I had recruited him to be my deputy. Sam had impressed me as an extraordinarily gifted lawyer. He wa...
CHARLES J. COOPER If you study that case, what you find is a judge doing his level best to discern the rule of law.
CHARLES J. COOPER My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top ...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS I just remember being stunned. We all looked at each other and thought, 'What good are we to this ma...
CHARLES J. COOPER If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
CHARLES J. SHIELDS All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
CHARLES J. SHIELDS In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
CHARLES J. SHIELDS On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the b...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The w...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Consti...
DIANE S. SYKES We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional ...
DIANE S. SYKES Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?
LUCY SYKES, JO PIAZZA My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS