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

• 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

• Without trying, I'm different.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Different
  • Trying

• I propose to the Chancellor that... before this legislature is recessed, we make some necessary changes to the weapons law, such as raising the age of ownership for large-caliber weapons from 18 to 21.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Law
  • Changes
  • Weapons

• Hiraeth means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Word
  • Homesickness
  • Gwalior

• To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Important
  • Money
  • Career

• My week beats your year.

  

  Lou Reed

• Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• 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