Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg -
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei -
I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook -
It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
Natalie du Toit -
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane -
Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
Odeya Rush
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
Gabriel Basso -
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence -
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler -
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
Queen Latifah -
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson -
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher -
I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
Tamron Hall -
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama -
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
Saint Ignatius -
Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.
Sam Altman -
'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
Ed Sheeran
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I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
Charles Dickens -
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
Fernando Pessoa -
I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
Nancy Meyers -
The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
Newt Gingrich -
Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.
Jean Seberg -
The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.
Octavia E. Butler