Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
Tariq Ramadan -
I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
Ireland Baldwin -
Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
Randall Park -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
Varley O'Connor -
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul -
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
Kajol -
Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
Dan Lipinski -
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
Taylor Swift -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen -
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
Viggo Mortensen -
I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
Sadie Frost -
When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
Camila Alves
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Harriet Martineau -
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi -
I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
Haruki Murakami -
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
Octavia E. Butler