Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Writing bores me so.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.
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...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
