Ian Rankin Quotes
I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
Quotes to Explore
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
