Octavia E. Butler Quotes
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
