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.Octavia Spencer
Quotes to Explore
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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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Kate Beckinsale -
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.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I love working the legislative process.
Kate Brown -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Abba Eban
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi -
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.
Zoe Sugg -
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.
Sam Yagan -
I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
Magdalena Frackowiak -
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
Pat Brown -
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor -
I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
Najib Mikati -
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Hanoi Hannah -
Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
Warren Moon -
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Madeleine L'Engle -
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.
Vera Farmiga
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Vernon Howard -
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori -
I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.
Mary Steenburgen -
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
William Shakespeare -
Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
Wendy Hiller -
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.
Octavia Spencer