Octavia E. Butler Quotes
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.
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I write in a rush of memory.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
