Irvine Welsh Quotes
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.Irvine Welsh
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz -
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse Hallstrom -
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino -
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs -
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein -
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
Beau Mirchoff -
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel Alexander
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What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.
Angie Stone -
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes -
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
Bill James -
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people 'must' behave.
Ellen Willis -
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh