Octavia E. Butler Quotes
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.Octavia E. Butler
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
Malcolm Wallop -
You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
Xenophon -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Viggo Mortensen -
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
Imelda May
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson -
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner -
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband -
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz -
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright -
It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
R. J. Cutler
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
Jackie Evancho -
Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
Wayne Newton -
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
Lars von Trier -
I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
Patrick deWitt
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
Victoria Justice -
One, two, three like a bird I sing, 'cause you given me the most beautiful set of wings.I'm so glad you're here today, 'cause tomorrow I might have to go and fly away. Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.
Tim McGraw -
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Marshall McLuhan -
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
Jann Wenner -
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
Adrian Rogers -
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
Octavia E. Butler