Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

Octavia E. Butler

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• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Go
  • Chef

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Music
  • Play
  • Passion

• I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Home
  • Team

• I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Women
  • Sufferer
  • Endometriosis

• I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • Way
  • Born

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Die

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• But complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny. A moment of pause is not a promise of peace.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Peace
  • Promise
  • Complacency

• The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

  

  Anthony Venn-Brown
  • Enemy
  • Ignorance
  • Energies

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • War
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Friend

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.