Jim Butcher Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the only magazines they subscribed to were 'The Atlantic' and 'The New Yorker,' broke down and got 'Life' magazine.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
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You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
