Octavia E. Butler Quotes
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
