Octavia Spencer Quotes
It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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What you see is what you get.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
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Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.
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I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.
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It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
