Iain Banks Quotes
-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.Iain Banks
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne -
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming -
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Vicente Fox -
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
Larry Wilmore -
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham -
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
Taya Kyle
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Orson Welles -
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock -
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner -
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale -
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Nancy Pelosi -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday -
There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields -
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.
Leo Strauss -
The Republican Party had a big day in yesterday's midterm elections and now controls the House and Senate. And don't ask me how this happened, but the Republican Party also gained control of three seats in our show's band.
Conan O'Brien -
-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.
Iain Banks