Octavia E. Butler Quotes
'When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.'
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream.
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I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.
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Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
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A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.
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'When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.'
