Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman -
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp -
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
Vince Vaughn -
I've always been a very prolific writer.
Nanci Griffith -
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
Natalie Zea -
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci -
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen -
It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
Dana Torres -
Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
Nancy Pearcey -
I don't read books.
Hansika Motwani -
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
J. D. Vance
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
L. Neil Smith -
You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
Tad Williams -
Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.
Arthur Eddington -
We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
Marie Osmond -
Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.
Queen Latifah -
Life was treasure. The only treasure.
Octavia E. Butler