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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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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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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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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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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I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
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Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
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I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.
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The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
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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.
