Jim Butcher Quotes
Harry Dresden: Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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I would say a lack of sleep is a cause for feeling not so beautiful. On those days, I try to drink lots of water and put on the biggest sunglasses I can find.
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I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
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I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.
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Harry Dresden: Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television.
