Iain Banks Quotes
The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
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I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.
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When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
