Yancy Butler Quotes
I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
