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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I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
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I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.
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You have watched the Titans walk the Earth … and you have kept stride. Perhaps you are more like them than you realize. You exist … to give hope.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.
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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.
