Octavia E. Butler Quotes
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
Carl Paladino
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Damien Rice
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Orson Welles
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
Katharine Cornell
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
Imelda May
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
Fabrice Muamba
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
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CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
Paige VanZant
