Iain Banks Quotes
Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.
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I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs. And I started to ask questions why. And, at that point, all roads were leading to Beijing.
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Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
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Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
