Kage Baker Quotes

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

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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.

  

  Edmund Waller
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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.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Up
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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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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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.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
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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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
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• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
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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.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
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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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
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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.

  

  Adam Brody
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  • College
  • Forever

• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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  • Live
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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.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
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• Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Power
  • Guilty

• Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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  • Respect
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• When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.

  

  Meaghan Rath
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wish
  • Understand
  • Philosopher

• Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Love
  • Culture
  • Powerful