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 -
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 -
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Valerie Bertinelli
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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 -
Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
Victor Koo
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
Edmund White -
I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don't know how I would fit into a catsuit.
Mamie Gummer
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Kamisese Mara -
John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
Kevin Rudd -
Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.
Joe Russo -
My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.
Chris Bohjalian -
We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.
Eleanor Smeal -
She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
Octavia E. Butler