Octavia E. Butler Quotes

How dull it is to have people defining you.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Topics

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I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

Jena Malone

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A man is able to take me to a restaurant, but he's not able to take me home to mom. Society is still not at a place yet where they see us as family.

Angelica Ross

FamilyHomeManMeMomSociety

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Jean Rostand

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El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

Tommy Caldwell

WorldNightWake UpColdSandHands

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Marvin Hamlisch

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I used to take long walks in England. The second time I went there, it helped me to lose a lot of weight. When I wasn't playing, I used to spend the whole day walking. Going from shop to shop.

Mohammad Azharuddin

TimeDayMeWalkingLongLose

Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.

Loni Love

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I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'

Jon Scieszka

MorningManMeSayingThinkThought

The media has their own agenda.

Corey Lewandowski

MediaOwnAgenda

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

Ashton Kutcher

HistoryThinkNothingEurope

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Wole Soyinka

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