Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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I have a couture body.
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I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn't work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.
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Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.
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It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.
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The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
