Iain Banks Quotes
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
Larry Brown
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
K. Eric Drexler
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
Aaron Koblin
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
Ram Dass
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.
Kelly Marie Tran
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
James Madison
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The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.
Marvin Sapp
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
