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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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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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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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.
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The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever... I love it.
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When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
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I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
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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.
