Octavia E. Butler Quotes
'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
Rachel Kushner
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
Maddie Hasson
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
Tasha Smith
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
Cameron Winklevoss
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
Victoria Osteen
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
Odette Annable
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
Naomi Campbell
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
Nancy Gibbs
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
Barton Gellman
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
Dakota Johnson
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta
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I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
Jacki Weaver
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
Ted Ligety
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The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
Talulah Riley
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I can't get inside the head of a politician today.
Brian Kilmeade
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American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley
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One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
Imran Amed
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
Octavia E. Butler