Octavia Spencer Quotes

I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

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• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Always
  • Fool

• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Most

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Me
  • Personal
  • Fascination

• 'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • America
  • Control

• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Different
  • Country
  • Friends

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Begin

• Amur n'est pruz se n'est egals.

  

  Marie de France

• True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Fun

• When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

  

  Alice James
  • Women
  • Children
  • Truth

• I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

  

  Lily King
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• It's going to be big dollars and it should be big dollars.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Dollars

• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Glory
  • Envy
  • Smoke

• High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance. I really care about my friends and my family; I eat good; I pray a lot. So it's like, I really care about my relationships with my family, my friends, my body and my soul.

  

  Saweetie
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Relationship

• As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Health
  • Value

• I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Streets
  • Grind
  • Sit

• The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Save
  • Cross
  • Embraced

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic