Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

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• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
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• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
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• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?

  

  Otto Rank
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• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
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• Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
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• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
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• No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Up
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• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
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• My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Job
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• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
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• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
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• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
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  • America
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• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
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• In Stalin each Soviet bureaucrat easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.

  

  Leon Trotsky
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• The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Power
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• I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
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• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Die

• If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Live
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• My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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