Jim Butcher Quotes
Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Democrats hate success.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to know what I think about certain issues, but I also have to be careful about what I say or, rather, how I say it. The Internet is forever, y'all.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
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Anywhere you hang yourself is home.
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Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
