Iain Banks Quotes

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Joel Osteen

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No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

Robert Reich

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After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

Stan Van Gundy

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There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

Tom Brokaw

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'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

Ron Cephas Jones

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I was always a funny guy. I don't think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn't a funny guy when they were young.

Ron White

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Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Ronald Reagan

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I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Mick Taylor

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I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next.

Julia Holter

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The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Joseph Bologna

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Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

Domhnall Gleeson

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I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Diablo Cody

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