Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I like things simple.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind of don't, which is not really good - I can learn more and more about their lives, and that makes me a more open person and a more accepting person.
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I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.
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As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
