Yancy Butler Quotes
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.
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Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
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I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
