LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Quotes
Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
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The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
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I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
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Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.
