Iain Banks Quotes
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of historyIain Banks
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
Gary Bettman -
I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
Paget Brewster -
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
Garth Brooks -
One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
Ed Harris -
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
Daniel Everett -
I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Ida Lupino -
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
Francesca Lia Block -
I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
Olivia Wilde
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
Paracelsus -
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
Patrick Fugit -
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao -
I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
Canelo Alvarez -
I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele -
The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
Raghuram Rajan
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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
Matthew Desmond -
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel -
We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.
Adel al-Jubeir -
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.
Jerry Moran -
There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.
Lidia Bastianich -
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
Iain Banks