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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Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.
Peter L. Berger
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I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be.
Hannah Hurnard
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I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.
Billy Collins
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
Dana Snyder
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
Tim Ferriss
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Octavia E. Butler
