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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To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell
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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
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Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
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Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
