Irvine Welsh Quotes

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

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• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

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• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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• I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

  

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• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

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  • Great
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• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Bald is the new black!

  

  Gail Porter
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• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

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• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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• I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write.

  

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• The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Peter Capaldi
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• Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

  

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  • Rest
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• For me to be here at album number six, it's kind of a way to say, 'Thank you for allowing me to be here... to still be around.'

  

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• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book