Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
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I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.
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Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.
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...he was indebted to his right honourable friend Edmund Burke for the greatest share of the political knowledge he possessed,-his political education had been formed under him,-his instructions had invariably governed his principles.
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
