Irvine Welsh Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
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The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
