Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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I'm not radical.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.
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If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
