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A smart model is a good model.
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Never dull your shine for somebody else.
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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
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I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
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Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3
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As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.
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I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really car...
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Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used t...
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the ...
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Every woman has a story,
TYRA BANKS It means a lot. I'm speechless. If someone had told me five years ago that I'd win it, I'd tell them...
TYRA GRANT In the first quarter, we came out a little sluggish so in the second quarter I was determined to not...
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When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?
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Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.
RALPH BANKS All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results dir...
IAIN BANKS There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed ...
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I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.
MAYA BANKS The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile.
TONY BANKS I'm lucky to be alive.
HENRY BANKS All the people I talk to are going back.
HENRY BANKS I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
ANNA BANKS There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the se...
IAIN BANKS We're using natural methods to clean up soil pollutants.
KATHY BANKS Yet the greatest temple in existence is not one found on a mountain top or in a jungle, it is far mo...
NOLAN BANKS Any mind that bears much wisdom, shares a body with a heart that bears many wounds.
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Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced ...
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I know this woman.”
“Who the hell is she?”
He stared both his brothers down. “She�...
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It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.
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Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all ...
MAYA BANKS The Cubs are due in sixty-two.
ERNIE BANKS The saddest death I think that happens in a persons life, is not the one that happens in old age, no...
NOLAN BANKS The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
ERNIE BANKS In being human I was a part of this world, yet in being a soul I was apart from it all the same.
NOLAN BANKS Its our eyes and minds that allow to see difference, but its our humanity that truly allows us to se...
NOLAN BANKS I think the worst part of growing up is the realization that there will come battles in this life th...
NOLAN BANKS A man is what he gives to this world.
NOLAN BANKS I luv the ded, this old baster sez to me when I wiz tryin to get some innfurmashin out ov him. You f...
IAIN BANKS It is a fool who seeks to build a monument for the greatest of his ancestors, for all he had to do w...
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Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something...
MAYA BANKS Such was the illusion of pride, for the fool sees it as the crown upon his head, while the wise sees...
NOLAN BANKS I would probably be more of a pest to the governor.
CHUCK BANKS If you're just looking for photo opportunities and waiting for school buses to drive up so you can c...
CHUCK BANKS If someone loves you they'll give you the world free of charge. If the whole world loves you, not ev...
DUSHAWN BANKS At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.
GORDON BANKS We don't have anything as urgent as manyana in Ireland
STUART BANKS Wow! It was awesome. It couldn't have been better.
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CHRIS BANKS [The statute] is used by the government from time to time in lieu of not having a criminal prohibiti...
WILLIAM BANKS To deliberately damage or harm any holy book, any book really for that matter is wrong. They are rec...
NOLAN BANKS Your good defenses are the ones that tackle well. Baltimore, New England ... you don't see them miss...
CARL BANKS He'd be challenged when he was out. I would let it roll off. Lawrence would respond differently. He ...
TONY BANKS O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
JOSEPH BANKS Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics...
ERNIE BANKS Loyalty is a like a plant, it cannot be nurtured once, if it is to survive. Every now and then it mu...
NOLAN BANKS Perhaps we become adults, the moment when we give up and let go of the type of people we wanted to b...
NOLAN BANKS The problem of removing the chains of ignorance, is that they are invisible to the eyes of those the...
NOLAN BANKS Through the ages men has sought to conquer power and tame it, foolish are those that walk that path,...
NOLAN BANKS There are but two kinds of men that will walk this earth, those that serve a human, and those that w...
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Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a clif...
MAYA BANKS You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo...
IAIN BANKS Yet in the end wealth proved treacherous, for in life it was a blanket of warmth, yet when the coldn...
NOLAN BANKS I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well...
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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more ...
MAYA BANKS Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel,...
IAIN BANKS I glance at him. He's looking at me, his expression every bit as expectant as I feel. I hate this li...
ANNA BANKS No offense, but you're not exactly an expert on judging people's emotions."
"I'm not sure what ...
ANNA BANKS Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
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ANNA BANKS The residents found a little quiet time with the pooch is a lot nicer than spending time with a dog ...
WILLIAM BANKS There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
IAIN BANKS Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly...
IAIN BANKS In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't ...
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They won’t really shoot us, will they?” Faith whispered as they started forward.
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MAYA BANKS Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.
RUSSELL BANKS The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have ...
IAIN BANKS Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at the table, ...
IAIN BANKS ...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervatin...
IAIN BANKS ...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you'...
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When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The ...
MAYA BANKS Basically, everyone thinks--knows--how sweet I am.

Emma, you threw my sister through hurr...
ANNA BANKS The butter from Dorothy's' crumpet
Dripped into the bell of her trumpet.

Sweet young...
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You never once looked away from your food. It was as if you were afraid it was going to get up and w...
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This doesn't just involve you, honey. If it did, then what you suggest might be the best option. But...
MAYA BANKS It was as if some magnetic repulsion, which before had kept our two carriages from meeting and passi...
IAIN BANKS The Cop. She has a steel grid in front of her mind, and for anything in the outer world to reach her...
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I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.
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As what-the-fuck moments went, this one was one of the bigger ones.
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I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.
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Oh my Jesus," she breathed. "Evangeline, what do you do with all these wonderful young men?"
MAYA BANKS Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
NANCY BANKS SMITH ...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is someh...
ADAM J. BANKS In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print ...
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They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
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Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they ...
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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in ...
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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
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For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance...
GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern...
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts
HARRY F. BANKS I am nothing more than a girl from the projects born of a single teenage-mother nurtured with love a...
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For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the di...
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was cons...
IAIN M. BANKS Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind! Blow, that thy for...
JOHN BANCKS (BANKS) Life isn't picture perfect.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
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He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of ...
IAIN M. BANKS To sum it up, succuss is merely a small act of courageousness.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Her beauty is laced in her strength and interwoven through her flaws. She embodies perfection.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS I don't know if this is global warming but it sure seems like global storming.
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I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was...
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It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in p...
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There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet l...
IAIN M. BANKS If perception is limited to experience and knowledge, what proof do we have of moral judgement?
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Do you want to work with us?”
“Everybody seems to think I should; they believe you’re fig...
IAIN M. BANKS Science will provide the material basis for a spiritually mature technologically advanced civilisati...
JONATHAN R. BANKS Science has the capacity to uplift us to heights of undreamed of sophistication and quality of life ...
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Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?”

Sma stopped, detached the creature from her ...
IAIN M. BANKS Eradication of pain, "deviant", or "oppositional" behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it c...
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War, famine, disease, genocide. Death, in a million different forms, often painful and protracted fo...
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks t...
IAIN M. BANKS Spring came late. For the children, shut in the dark, cold parsonage, adjusting to Aunt and getting ...
LYNNE REID BANKS You were built for this moment.
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I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and aw...
GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS When I am gone and the wind blows, It is the breeze from my wings you feel.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without...
LYNNE REID BANKS The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...
LYNNE REID BANKS It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towa...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Yes, you may love them to death, but are they willing to love you to life?
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Love isn't about what you do for me. Love for me is where I see myself in relation to you.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS .....And sometimes life sends you places to confirm affirmations..... this journey of mine....
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Life is like a rainbow, Choose your color.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS Children are like a piece of glass. Once the glass is broken. It will never be whole again.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
NANCY BANKS SMITH I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose ...
AL-SAADIQ BANKS Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when...
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In the old days people died and that was that; you might hope to see them in heaven, but once they w...
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They spend time. That’s just it. They spend time traveling. The time weighs heavily on them becaus...
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[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.
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The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.
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We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they but p...
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Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly...
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[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
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I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how...
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... like a berserk raptor thrown into a nest of hibernating kittens...
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He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was t...
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The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an...
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We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point...
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It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.” “Well, that is al...
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The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
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[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned...
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Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to ...
IAIN M. BANKS Expunction of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing, but it can signify...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Some champions are born; others are forged!
KIERRA C.T. BANKS You can choose to fight your journey every step of the way or you can embrace it, recognizing each s...
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You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those ...
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The bomb lives only as it is falling.
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