Octavia E. Butler Quotes

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
  • Moments
  • My Life

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Whatever

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Give
  • Take
  • Noble

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Listen
  • Radio
  • Too Much

• Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Consciousness
  • Miracles

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Education
  • Proud
  • Basketball

• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • You
  • Said

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Thought
  • End

• I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • May
  • Today
  • Hate

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Me
  • Class
  • Citizenship

• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Conviction
  • Candidates
  • Voters

• Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

  

  Steve Kazee
  • Change
  • Social Media
  • Perceives

• You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

  

  Bernadette Peters

• I don't think we're individually amazing musicians, but what we do collectively is pretty good.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Good
  • Misicians

• Kindness eases change.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Change
  • Kindness
  • Ease