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 have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
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In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.
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I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films.
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Cease to know or to tellOr to see or to be your ownHave someone else's will as your ownHave someone else's will as your own.
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Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
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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.
