Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid -
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
Aaron Eckhart -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
Hari Kondabolu -
I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
Randall Terry -
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
Harrison Ford -
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
Naomi Weisstein -
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
Carl Lewis -
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Gary Cooper
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash -
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Adam Braun -
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce -
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret but truer thought, that you have nothing naturally superior to them.
Blaise Pascal -
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
John Tillotson -
He chose me first and He shall have me.
Agnes of Rome -
Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?
Octavia E. Butler