Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
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You don't make any money sitting in traffic.
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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Now I know who you are Yeah, I see I should have known it from the start.
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'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
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Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.
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I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
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Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
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I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
