Iain Banks Quotes
Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Mother's love outlives everything.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even people in the room tell different versions. There's no one truth about what happened in those interviews, so I feel very relaxed about bringing my imagination to the piece. God knows everyone else has.
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Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power
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Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
