Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
T. C. Boyle -
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
Parker Stevenson -
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
Omar Bongo -
I naturally want to be provocative.
Iggy Azalea -
I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.
Zach Galifianakis -
I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
Zara Larsson
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He (Donald Trump) called for a new tax loophole – let’s call it the Trump Loophole – because it would allow him to pay less than half the current tax rate on income from many of his companies. He’d pay a lower rate than millions of middle class families.
Hillary Clinton -
O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 22Survey our empire, and behold our home!These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.
Lord Byron -
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.
Joanna Lumley -
I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.
Christian Louboutin -
Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns -
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
David Ogden Stiers
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Ellsworth Huntington -
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Lesley Garrett -
I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
Matt Mullenweg -
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
Emmanuel Jal -
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
Danielle Steel -
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith
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Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Our DNA was mixed with a species from outer space and apes; we’re a mixture of the two.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate.
Ernst Mayr -
We are a naturally hierarchical species.
Octavia E. Butler