Kage Baker Quotes
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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Mentors are like friendships.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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They really capitalize on the fact that we are the first (in the nation primary). It is ridiculous.
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I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seeing how much you can step over it, and I mean, I do that in my personal life, too. I try to anger and piss people off a little bit to try to see what I can get away with. I got in trouble with more than one cartoon.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
