Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.
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When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.
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I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!
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I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
