Iain Banks Quotes
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.
Iain Banks
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
Damian Loeb
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
Kat Dennings
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
Salma Hayek
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
J. R. Martinez
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
Adam Hasner
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
Samina Baig
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
Carice van Houten
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
Vanity
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
Rand Paul
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
Gary Johnson
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To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
John James Audubon
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
Muhammad Ali
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We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.
Ann Druyan
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
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I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.
Wes Moore
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All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.
Iain Banks
