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'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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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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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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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.
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It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
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The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary 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.
