Irvine Welsh Quotes

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

Irvine Welsh

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At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

Joanna Southcott

BeginningEndChurchWriteMinisters

When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

Ann Kirkpatrick

RightSameExpectElected Officials

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

John Updike

MyselfMeWantEverythingFiction

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Stephen Hawking

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I love The Isley Brothers.

RJ Cyler

LoveBrothersI Love

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Michel Foucault

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I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

Lucy Hale

LoveGreatMeKnowMoviesOut

In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.

Jay Samit

GrowthExperienceCompanyTwoTake

I want to build a great raincoat.

Joseph Abboud

GreatWantBuild

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

Del Shannon

PeopleThinkPlayNewWantNothing

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

Conrad Hilton

BestPrayerPlanningThinkThinking

Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.

Brandon Webb

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