Irvine Welsh Quotes
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.Irvine Welsh
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu -
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
Dan Hawkins -
I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
Kat Graham
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Money has no moral opinions.
Abraham Polonsky -
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
Ban Ki-moon -
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule -
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
Hari Kondabolu -
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
Hamza Yusuf -
When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
Barbara Corcoran
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild -
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Adam Jones -
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi -
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps -
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
Cameron Diaz
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
Natalie Zea -
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso -
Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity.
Napoleon Hill -
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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