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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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.
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Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
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One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. 'Let me have them,' said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker...had said: 'If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.'
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Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
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Harry Dresden: Blood leaves no stain on a Warden's cloak.
