Kage Baker Quotes
'I will say this once.' Edward turned to the others. 'I’m in command on this mission. Do not, at any time, attempt to wrest control from me. If what you see dismays you, avert your eyes.'
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
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There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
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I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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'I will say this once.' Edward turned to the others. 'I’m in command on this mission. Do not, at any time, attempt to wrest control from me. If what you see dismays you, avert your eyes.'
