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.Iain Banks
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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.
Valerie Plame -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
Laila Ali -
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Aaron Johnson -
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
Bashar al-Assad -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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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.'
Haile Selassie -
Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
Patrick Macnee -
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.
T-Pain -
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
Kat Graham -
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
Maia Mitchell
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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.
Dalai Lama -
Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
Samuel Larsen -
You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
Sam Heughan -
My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
Dan Hill -
A true champion will fight through anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
Fatema Mernissi
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt -
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
Hans Haacke -
There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.
Sally Ride -
I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.
Bruce Babbitt -
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.
Iain Banks