Iain Banks Quotes

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

Topics

PeopleSocietyLegalYouSituation

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

Jet Li

ExperienceStepVideo GamesUnique

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Maya Rudolph

QueenFeelDragI Feel LikeLike

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

Stanley Elkin

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In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

Robbie Robertson

DreamsMeFactsSameSeemAmericana

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Joseph Priestley

RespectMyselfOthersAdmiration

I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.

Diplo

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I always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.

Allen Iverson

CareerAlwaysFinishWanted

I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into my acting. Much of acting is about borrowing from your real-life experiences.

Suriya

MyselfActingTryInsightOutBring

Could there be a cowgirl in my future? You know, I never know what character is going to come and tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Hey, tell my story.' So maybe the next one will have boots.

Susan Isaacs

FutureCharacterMeStoryBootsYou

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

Susan Minot

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ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

Peter Bergen

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We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.

Ridley Scott

KnowExists

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