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.'Octavia E. Butler
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
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.''
Larry Wilmore -
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.
Wayne Huizenga -
Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
Nancy Lublin -
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
Maelle Gavet -
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
Karl Urban -
Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
Warren Rudman -
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold -
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.
Adam McKay -
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
Hannah Murray -
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
Hale Irwin -
In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
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.
Gavin Andresen -
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.
Randy Moss -
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
Laura Schlessinger
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We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
Peter Benchley -
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Jack Welch -
If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
Randall Kennedy -
Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.
Poe Ballantine -
'When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.'
Octavia E. Butler