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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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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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.
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The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.
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Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.
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I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
