Jim Butcher Quotes
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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I shop more than most women.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I'm kind of a recluse.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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I regret all of my books.
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Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.
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No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
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If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.
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I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Harry Dresden: Blood leaves no stain on a Warden's cloak.
