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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Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
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Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.
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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
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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.
