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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Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won't have to hear them ever again.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
