Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I am not a fan of books.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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I do find acting cathartic.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
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and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.
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If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good."
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
