Dylan Moran Quotes
As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.
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The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
