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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Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
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I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.
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'When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.'
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It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'
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You can always be a little bit better.
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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.
