Irvine Welsh Quotes
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I went to my first college to play soccer.
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The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
