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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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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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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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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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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People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.
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I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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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.
