Irvine Welsh Quotes

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Irvine Welsh

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TimePeopleShortHumanityYouSee

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

St. Vincent

LoveCarRememberRoyalKidAlways

In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose.

Travis Beacham

FreedomExperienceYouChooseAllow

I can only think of about four players who I do not have anywhere from a good to a great relationship with.

Tony La Russa

GoodRelationshipGreatThinkI Can

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

Tom Perrotta

LifeProgressSchoolMeHigh School

Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.

Michael Kors

BestQualityLearnYouPiecesWear

New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.

Jason Pierre-Paul

New YorkCityNewNothingHereFan

Oh, I am a prompt person!

Josh Hutcherson

I AmPersonOhPromptAm

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Condoleezza Rice

LeadershipWorldStrongAmerican

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Bob Ney

ConfidenceChildrenLawViewAmerica

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

FreedomI AmWelfareBecauseForces

I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.

Payal Kadakia

TimeDanceMeRememberYouGeometry

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Thomas P.M. Barnett

HistoryWorldEndRhetoricHimOver

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