Rico Love (Richard Preston Butler, Jr.) Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
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I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.
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Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
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I don't believe in writing people off.
