Jim Butcher Quotes

Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Jim Butcher

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• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination.

  

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• A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

  

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• I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.

  

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• Entry-level jobs are excellent opportunites to educate young women about the realities of the financial world and can prepare them for the next move up within the firm or another area of the financial industry.

  

  Adena Friedman
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• Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
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• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
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• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Family
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• I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Job
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• The real demon in my life is my father.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Life
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• Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any 'Supernatural' demon away - but in real life, they'd have crippling co-dependency issues.

  

  Margaret Stohl
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• It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

  

  John Joseph Lydon

• While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

  

  Kenneth G. Wilson
  • Together

• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

  

  Agnes de Mille
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• Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap-though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.

  

  Jim Butcher
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• I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.

  

  Ashley Greene
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• Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

  

  George Packer
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• Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

  

  J. Christopher Herold
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• Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

  

  Kami Garcia
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• The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Look

• I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

  

  Jon Evans
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• Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Demon