Octavia Spencer Quotes
The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look.
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I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.
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It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
