Yancy Butler Quotes
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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The status quo is simply unacceptable.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
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My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
