Octavia E. Butler Quotes

He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense-as it often is.

Octavia E. Butler

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• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Think
  • Song
  • Know

• I was an avid Pokemon card collector.

  

  Flume
  • Card
  • Collector
  • Avid

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Road
  • Through
  • Sacred

• The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Why
  • Book

• If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • You
  • Acting

• I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Different
  • Team
  • Challenges

• It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • You
  • Training
  • Lot

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • People
  • Choices
  • New

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• Ya'll are Eminem backwards, you're mini-mes

  

  Eminem
  • Backwards
  • Eminem

• Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;Well, you know, there's no escape.That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• Students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly. But deprived of literary guidance, they no longer have any image of a perfect soul, and hence do not long to have one.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.

  

  Learned Hand
  • True

• You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • True
  • Values
  • Pressure

• I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • People
  • Country
  • Passion

• I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Training
  • Watch
  • Adjust

• On the practical level, the gods were understood to be closely connected with every aspect of the social and political life of a community... On the imperial level this meant that it was widely known—and genuinely believed by most—that it was the gods who had made the empire great... The Christians refused to worship or even acknowledge the gods of the empire, claiming in fact that these were evil, demonic beings, not beneficent deities that promoted the just cause of the greatest empire the world had ever known. The refusal to worship was seen by others to be dangerous to the well-being of the empire and thus to the security of the state. And so the decision to persecute—which seems to us, perhaps, to be a strictly religious affair—was at the time inherently sociopolitical as well.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Community
  • Gods
  • Worship

• Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • Poverty
  • Role Models
  • Hopelessness

• He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense-as it often is.

  

  Octavia E. Butler