Iain Banks Quotes
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I love playing sport.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I began with a strong bias toward skepticism. Besides, to tell the truth, I still find occult phenomena a little preposterous and irrelevant. What do they really matter if you place them against the truly great human achievements - against the creative genius of a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven, an Einstein? In that context they seem almost trivial.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
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I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
