Octavia E. Butler Quotes
A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
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There is a type of respect that we have for each other and a warm feeling that exists between dealers and collectors who have known each other for many years.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.
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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
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A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.
