Octavia Spencer Quotes
For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I love working the legislative process.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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Affluence means influence.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
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For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
