Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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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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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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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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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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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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It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.
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Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.
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I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.
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When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
