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
Quotes to Explore
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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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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
Dan Brown -
I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.
Kym Whitley -
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill -
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
Anne M. Mulcahy -
-"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