Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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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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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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America is huge.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there weren't really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.
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I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
