Iain Banks Quotes
There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
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Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
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Political philosophy has lost its credibility in proportion as politics itself has become more philosophic than ever in a sense.
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There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.
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One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
