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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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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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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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)
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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.
