Irvine Welsh Quotes
'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.Irvine Welsh
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey -
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
Marc Andreesen -
Black is not a color.
Edouard Manet -
Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.
Kate Winslet -
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
Hale Irwin -
It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
Pat Paulsen -
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
Daley Thompson -
Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
Samantha Harvey -
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir
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Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
Randall Jarrell -
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
Carl Jung -
Undoubtedly I had lost time in balking at scales, arpeggios. ... There is an advantage in establishing the top story of one's constructions first: One has seen the heights; one knows what one is building for and what must be sustained.
Yehudi Menuhin -
India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere we are impatient. I am young, and I too have a dream. I dream of an India strong, independent and self-reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world in the service of mankind.
Rajiv Gandhi -
I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts.
John Lennon The Beatles -
If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
Antonin Scalia
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Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.
Azim Premji -
I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.
Jason Mitchell -
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
Charles Kuralt -
Children reinvent your world for you.
Susan Sarandon -
I have always loved to create pieces that are special, unique. It's very important to me that the dress means something to someone. I've no real interest in making something that's an everyday item.
Jenny Packham -
'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
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