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.
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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.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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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.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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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.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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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.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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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.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.
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The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
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I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.
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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.
