Irvine Welsh Quotes
I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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I'm never bored.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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You obviously never know when you have a lot of changes to a team, but the new guys have come in here and they look great. They work hard. But the league is so competitive now so it's hard to predict.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
