Iain Banks Quotes
'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.
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The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'
