Octavia E. Butler Quotes
How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'
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Father drove fifty miles each evening behind his spanking team of horses to keep his date with the Southern girl - carefully chaperoned by FOUR maiden aunts.
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We are never ever ever... getting back together.We are never ever ever... getting back together.You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me.But we are never ever ever ever... getting back together.Like, ever.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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With clink of hammers closing rivets up.
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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others’ expense.
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Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.
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Waking up every morning with a company is a lot of pressure. But when you're aware of what other people are waking up with, it's a whole lot easier.
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The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
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I am not a consecutive writer.
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
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I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
