Octavia E. Butler Quotes

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

Octavia E. Butler

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• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Me
  • California

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• I naturally want to be provocative.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Want
  • Naturally
  • Provocative

• To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Wanting

• I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Known

• He (Donald Trump) called for a new tax loophole – let’s call it the Trump Loophole – because it would allow him to pay less than half the current tax rate on income from many of his companies. He’d pay a lower rate than millions of middle class families.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Trump

• O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 22Survey our empire, and behold our home!These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Home
  • Free
  • Dark

• I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Green

• I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Movie

• Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

  

  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns
  • Good
  • Emotional

• In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

  

  David Ogden Stiers

• According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington

• What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • People
  • Music
  • Present

• I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Great
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • People
  • Mother
  • Rap

• My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

  

  Danielle Steel
  • Kids
  • Night

• I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Stage
  • Human Beings
  • Species

• It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.

  

  Weyes Blood
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Naturally

• Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Guy
  • Reason
  • Husband

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Species
  • Naturally