Yancy Butler Quotes
I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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America is huge.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots.
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To hope is to contradict the future.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
