Iain Banks Quotes
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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It's great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn't always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I've had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.
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Hillary Clinton does very well in Pennsylvania generally. I think she connects with the working white people and all kinds of people that normally would have a problem with the modern Democratic Party.
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One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
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The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
