Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

Octavia E. Butler

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Always
  • Voice

• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
  • Results

• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • History
  • Will
  • Holocaust

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • School
  • Parents
  • Me

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Paper

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Issues
  • Lasts
  • Deals

• I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Inspiration
  • Guitar
  • Lyrics

• My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Live
  • May
  • Job

• Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • May
  • Single
  • Dying