Irvine Welsh Quotes
People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.
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When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
