Iain Banks Quotes
Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.
