Jim Butcher Quotes
Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power - not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.
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We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.
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I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.
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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power - not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.
