Martin McDonagh Quotes

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  

  Ted Dekker
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• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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• It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

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• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
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• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

  

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• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
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• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
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• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• There's a reason ISIS exists, which is because we've invaded countries, and they hate the Western world. I'm not forgiving them; I'm just saying there's a reason.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
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• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

  

  Conrad Veidt
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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  

  Ariel Gore
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• I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.

  

  Lee Unkrich
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• Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

  

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