Iain Banks Quotes
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
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The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.
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I am very much into the paranormal.
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
