Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
'How do they feel about demons off in Atur?' he asked.'Scared.' My father tapped his temple. 'All that religion makes their brains soft.'
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!
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Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.
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My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'
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What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.
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'How do they feel about demons off in Atur?' he asked.'Scared.' My father tapped his temple. 'All that religion makes their brains soft.'
