Jim Butcher Quotes
Susan Rodriguez: Harry, have you ever heard of the paperless office?Harry Dresden: Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. Someone says he knows someone who saw him, but you don't ever actually see him yourself.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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'What kind of idiot do you think I am?''I have no idea what kind of idiot you are,' Miss Jesczenka said. 'That’s why I’m asking.'
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Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
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I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.
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A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
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'Rather than fighting over a piece of the pie, can we grow the pie?' is really our model.
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Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.
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I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
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Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.
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Susan Rodriguez: Harry, have you ever heard of the paperless office?Harry Dresden: Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. Someone says he knows someone who saw him, but you don't ever actually see him yourself.
