Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Octavia E. Butler
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
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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.
Barry Manilow
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.'
Floyd Skloot
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
Nancy Cartwright
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Vaclav Klaus
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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.
Naveen Jain
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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.
Zoe Kravitz
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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.
Zendaya
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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?
Raekwon
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I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.
Douglas Booth
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I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
Lena Headey
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
Vivien Leigh
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
Sam Graves
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It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Octavia E. Butler
