Irvine Welsh Quotes

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Irvine Welsh

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As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

John Barrasso

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Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.

Jeffrey Kluger

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I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

Amy Adams

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Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

Simon Helberg

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I can be horrifically single-minded.

Trisha Goddard

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I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

Rod Stewart

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StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people.

Mitch Kapor

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The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.

Jared Cohen

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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonas Salk

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I did a few movies, but the word 'star'... I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint 'Larry Dickman' when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a 'Dirty Harry' movie. That's why he's a movie star... he's so creative.

Don Rickles

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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

Diplo

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