Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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PeopleSocietyThinkYouNeedLike

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Jill Scott

LifeArtStand UpStandMy LifeWhy

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeBusinessPowerMoneyStruggle

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

John T. Chambers

PeopleThinkTrueWillFortuneLeft

Fighting somebody like Manhoef, who can take anyone out at any point in time - that was a big win for me and one of the best finishes. In that fight, it wasn't looking good for me, but I kept believing in myself and was able to land a big shot, which was huge!

Robbie Lawler

GoodTimeMyselfBestFightWin

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

Luke Combs

LifeMeSingingRoadGuitarDown

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

Diego Luna

SonBorderBornTwoGoneUnited

So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

David Zucker

SeeingNowSometimesTalkOffice

I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

Bret Stephens

I AmLawSorryEdgeCIAFurther

I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular!

Paulina Rubio

LoveClothingGlamorousBigLike

I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.

Nir Eyal

ActionDesignMysteryRewardCreate

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

TruthFoolPurposeIdeasAccept

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

Mark Sheppard

PeopleThinkPointSci-FiSomeSort

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