Jim C. Hines Quotes
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.
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You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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You may all go to pot.
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Ich singe, wie der Vogel singtDer in den Zweigen wohnet.
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There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it-it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it-you don't know what right is and you're not a man.
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I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
