Iain Banks Quotes
Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.Iain Banks
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
Samantha Power -
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
Macaulay Culkin -
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Eckhart Tolle -
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
Magic Johnson -
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
Zendaya -
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett -
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
Camila Alves -
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Edmund White -
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara -
I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
Zubin Mehta
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
Dan Brown -
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
Adam McKay -
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock -
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes -
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Dan Savage -
If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
Rain Phoenix
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery -
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
L. Ron Hubbard -
One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.
Ed Rendell -
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
D. H. Lawrence -
We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.
Chuck Brown -
Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
Iain Banks