Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.
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A treeCannot growIn its parents’ shadows.
