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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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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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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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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The little man on the wedding cake.
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
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Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.
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I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.
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Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
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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.
