Kage Baker Quotes
The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.
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I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.
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The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.
