Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.Octavia E. Butler
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden -
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray -
I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
Taran Killam -
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
Taylor Swift -
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
Rainn Wilson -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall -
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
Patrick Lencioni -
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer -
I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
Gabriel Basso -
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali -
The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
Sam Kean -
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
Vidal Sassoon
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
Ai Weiwei -
I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.
Elizabeth Wilson -
If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'
Lilly Singh -
I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.
Jill Scott -
I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.
Arizona Muse -
Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
Octavia E. Butler