Octavia E. Butler Quotes
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
Octavia E. Butler
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
Ian Hart
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
Jack Dangermond
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But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
Harry Browne
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
Lamar Odom
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
C. V. Raman
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
Jack Keane
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
Ian Frazier
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The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
Adam Davidson
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
Victor Cruz
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I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.
Bill Clegg
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I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
Libby Trickett
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I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
Alberto Fujimori
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It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.
Neil Patrick Harris
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I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
George Sanders
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
Octavia E. Butler
