Irvine Welsh Quotes
The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I don't like possessions.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.
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When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
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People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
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Acting's boring.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
