Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.Octavia E. Butler
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd -
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
Taylor Schilling -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen -
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
Sam Altman -
I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
Gary Busey -
I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
Pankaj Mishra
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
Katee Sackhoff -
Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
Edmund Phelps -
I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A. R. Rahman -
The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
Rabih Alameddine -
I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
Ranbir Kapoor -
The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
Jaime Ray Newman
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Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?
Andy Dunn -
I'm happy with my body.
Coco Martin -
As I tried to emphasize in the commentary, hindsight plus the logical fallacy can be a dangerous combination. But can you look at the list of the 10 juxtapositions, especially the two that pertain to around the time of the Democratic Convention last year? And obviously, there are lists that are longer that have been compiled elsewhere that are based on different criteria and are of different merit. But can you look at that list of 10 juxtapositions and say that, in your heart, you're comfortable that not once were political considerations a factor in any of the counterterrorism statements or actions of the government?
Keith Olbermann -
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
Octavia E. Butler