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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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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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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… behind me there were ghosts of people like a trailing fog as far as I could see - grandfathers of grandfathers and grandmothers of grandmothers without number.
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We feel that our cause is just and holy... We seek no conquest... All we ask is to be left alone.
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Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
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Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
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But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
