Octavia Spencer Quotes

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

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• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Want
  • Journey

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Change
  • Helping
  • Looking

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Bond

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Say
  • Mental
  • Cognitive

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Think
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Competition
  • Stand
  • Speed

• And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Wise

• We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sin
  • Lovers

• My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Day
  • Starts
  • I Love It

• I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hate