Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
