Martin McGuinness Quotes
I'm still an Irish republican; I absolutely believe in Irish unity and am working to achieve that. But over the course of 15 years or more, people like myself and others have been working to end the vicious cycle of conflict.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
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We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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Coniunxest mihi, sunt nati; dedimus tot pignora fatis.
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I'm still an Irish republican; I absolutely believe in Irish unity and am working to achieve that. But over the course of 15 years or more, people like myself and others have been working to end the vicious cycle of conflict.
