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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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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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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I have since learned that Judge Isaac Parker watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse. I suppose he did this from a sense of duty. There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry - it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.
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I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
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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.
