Octavia Spencer Quotes
My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
