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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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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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.
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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.
