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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.


Octavia Butler

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LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarsh...
DICK GEPHARDT I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really int...
CRAIG BREWER I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa...
RAM SHRIRAM I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with ...
T. D. JAKES I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.
STEVEN SEAGAL I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
LIZ PHAIR I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should...
PAULA DEEN Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
KAREN JOY FOWLER My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptis...
CURTIS JACKSON I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
JERRY B. JENKINS I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless...
PATRICIA HEATON I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
ERIC BALFOUR I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.
KIM ALEXIS I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were v...
TRACY CHAPMAN My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raise...
JOHN OLIVER I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that...
VANILLA ICE I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
LARRY WILCOX I was raised doing martial arts.
VICTOR WEBSTER I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
DAVID ROBINSON I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.
MEGAN FOX I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
WILLIAM P. YOUNG I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.
LEONARD NIMOY I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
SHELLEY LONG I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
TOBIN BELL It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car...
MERLE HAGGARD I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Co...
JILL SCOTT Beirut is where I was born and raised.
REEM ACRA You've got to be doing something when the lights are off and nobody is looking. I was raised like th...
ERIC PARKER I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
CURT SCHILLING I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian fait...
NATALIE COLE In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and...
CHELY WRIGHT In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that requi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and wat...
JULIE WHITE I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up a...
ISLA FISHER Last summer, I was walking to my car early in the morning before work, I had an early meeting, and I...
JUSTIN ELLIS That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ...
CHUCK FEENEY My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
DIEGO MARADONA It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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