Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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I hadn't realized until this week that in Moses' youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.
