Irvine Welsh Quotes

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Men
  • Like
  • Player

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Believe In Yourself

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Stress

• That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • God
  • Women
  • Why

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • American
  • Best
  • Car

• I love Channing Tatum!

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Clever

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

  

  Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • Today
  • Society

• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'

  

  Len Goodman
  • People

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Stop
  • Desire
  • Progress

• Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Now
  • Walk