Jim Butcher Quotes

Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
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• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
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  • Things

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
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• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
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  • Try

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
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• I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
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• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
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  • Thought
  • Occurred

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Better
  • Unique
  • Cold

• Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Bad
  • Fun

• I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Time
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  • Find

• We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Mexican
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  • Border

• When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Church
  • Wonder

• It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Mother
  • Father

• Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Bad
  • Feeling