Yancy Butler Quotes
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
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In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still-stagnant economy, President Barack Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
