Octavia Spencer Quotes
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
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Everything's fucked! It's down to individual people to make life enjoyable. I don't have anything more to say than that. I think people should avoid the world fucking them up. People are becoming too uptight, treating their children bad, being negative.
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All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.
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I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You always want to evolve and change, but if I go in and I know it's a certain type of song, I know exactly where I'm going to place the mics.
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Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
