Irvine Welsh Quotes
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
Ma Jun -
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith Stein -
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
Irving Babbitt -
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
Earl Wilson -
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara Hershey -
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
Halle Berry -
I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
J. J. Abrams -
I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
Ted Yoho -
I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
Maisie Williams
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Inara George -
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
Fat Joe -
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
Camille Paglia -
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
Adam Hicks
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One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
W. H. Auden -
I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
Irvine Welsh