Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I hate competition.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.
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When, one day, you have made your mark on the world, remember that, in the ultimate analysis, we are all mere temporary custodians of the wealth we generate, whether it be financial, intellectual, or emotional. The best use of all your wealth is to share it with those less fortunate.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
