Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.
Octavia E. Butler
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
Ira Sachs
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine Albright
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
Campbell Scott
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
Orison Swett Marden
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
Carla Hall
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
John Sununu
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Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.
Samuel Pepys
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My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.
Jesse McCartney
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
Usain Bolt
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I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.
Octavia E. Butler