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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

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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.

  

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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
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• 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
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• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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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• The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.

  

  Martin Freeman

• My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

  

  John Lithgow
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• Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.

  

  Mary Daly

• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
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• Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

  

  Jim Butcher
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