Octavia E. Butler Quotes
She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.Octavia E. Butler
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
Ted Cruz -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
Patrick Kane -
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian -
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Malcolm Wilson -
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
Salman Rushdie
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
Dan Abrams -
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
Kacy Catanzaro -
I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
Olivia Colman -
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
Ian Frazier
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Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
Victor Koo -
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
Salman Rushdie -
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
I. M. Pei -
Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
Sam Yagan -
I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
Verite -
I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
Bam Margera
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The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
Benjamin Franklin -
Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.
John Schlesinger -
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round.
C. S. Lewis -
This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.
Albert Brooks -
I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.
Niall Horan One Direction -
She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
Octavia E. Butler