Jim Butcher Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
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Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.
