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

• It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Evil
  • Dimension
  • Banality

• I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.

  

  Bob Harper
  • People
  • Science
  • Moving

• My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • People
  • Father
  • Night

• 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