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Irvine Welsh Quotes

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Irvine Welsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 27, 1961

Topics

Live Travel Think Grow You Place

I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we've already gained.

Jim Brown

American Country Citizen Want Will

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Meek Mill

Money Making Money Profit Always Off

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

Children Ignorance Talent Endure

I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house.

John Legend

Me Confident Feel House Leave Well

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Andy Richter

People Amazing Brain Weird Born

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

Steven Saylor

Father Myself Say Ideal Had

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

Robin Wright

Learning You Know Want How

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Constitution Year Nothing President

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Mary Wesley

Child Someone You Go Know Want

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

Mike Rogers

High Seniors Alabama Costs Continue

I will definitely drop bars, but that's, like, a few minutes of my show. I do a part of my set where I do that, and then I'll get back to the jokes. All the older people will look like, 'What the hell is happening?' The younger people are cheering, and the older people are like, 'I'm scared. I don't know what's going on.'

Jay Pharoah

People Hell Look Back Know Will

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

Drew Carey

People Comedy Used Stand-Up Comedy