Iain Banks Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
