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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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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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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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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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.
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I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
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I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.
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If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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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.
