Jim Butcher Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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Prosper Olander had never been in a cathedral, but now he felt something like that, the experience of entering suddenly a space so large, so devoted to a single purpose, that the insides of the heart are drawn for a moment outward and into it, trying to fill it, and failing.
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Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?
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The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup-in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
