Iain Banks Quotes
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks
Quotes to Explore
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When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
Ram Dass
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
T. J. Miller
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
Harrison Ford
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
Walter Martin
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
Natalie Portman
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean
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I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
Daniel Boulud
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
Dan Hicks
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The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
Ted Rall
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Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.
Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D.
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It is empty to plead that the solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of the clock. The solution is in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans - white and Negro together - must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud
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Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
Pierce Brosnan
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In the past, you would take the time to write a love letter and you would think about what you wanted to say and compose it in a certain way. Now, everything is so short. It has to be, because it is rushed, and therefore, in a way, it loses a little bit of its importance. But I think it is very important to take the time to say what you want to say.
Haider Ackermann
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Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks
