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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• 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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• You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

  

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• A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

  

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• Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything".

  

  Kiersten White
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• But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wideThe old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hideAnd the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to findYou'll see it all around you at this crossroads of timeIn the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Time
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  • Sweet

• Bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Opinion
  • Generations
  • False

• 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