Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Women just love to shop.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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Together with script writers Sid Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
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Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
