Irvine Welsh Quotes
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.Irvine Welsh
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Joanne Rowling -
When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
Sam Smith -
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
Patrick McHenry -
I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
Kapil Sharma
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
Edgardo Osorio -
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
Ram Shriram -
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
Abraham Lincoln -
I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
Larry Wilmore -
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
Sam Shepard -
Straight people are everywhere!
Dan Savage
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
D. B. Sweeney -
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai -
Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
Kate Burton -
The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
Eden Robinson -
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
Stewart Udall
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I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
Gerald Durrell -
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell -
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten -
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
Irvine Welsh