Iain Banks Quotes
She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
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The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.
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You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
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She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
