Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.
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But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.
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Use your words to lift and inspire. You may just change someone's world.
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Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.
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I always say that I want to play Serena Williams if they ever did a biopic of hers. I definitely want to do that, and I want to do some films.
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Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
