Dean Winters Quotes

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Worst

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Irish

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Irish

• If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Goals

• There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

  

  Daniel Hope
  • World
  • Music
  • Irish

• I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Irish
  • Italian

• I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Irish

• I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

  

  James Comey
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Couple
  • Irish

• Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Rest

• Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • History

• I'm too lazy to work out.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Work
  • Lazy

• The whole idea with the show from the start was to go international.

  

  Jim Henson

• I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Irish