Martin McGuinness Quotes

We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.

Martin McGuinness

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• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Important
  • Family
  • Black

• I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Think
  • Data

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Happy
  • Fact

• I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Famous
  • Wanted

• Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Word
  • Anything
  • Mouth

• My movies are not messed with by the studios.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Movies
  • Studios
  • Messed

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Children
  • Why

• People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Forget

• Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mankind
  • Expansion
  • Treason

• The phrase ‘marriage market’ is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured.

  

  Gary Becker

• Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • World

• Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money - or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Men
  • Money

• Try to be in as many relationships as you can.

  

  Cher Sonny & Cher
  • Relationships
  • To Be
  • Many Times

• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Different
  • Think
  • Choices

• It may be inverted snobbishness but I don't want old style, Old Etonian Tories of the old school to succeed me and go back to the old complacent, consensus ways. John Major is someone who has fought his way up from the bottom and is far more in tune with the skilled and ambitious and worthwhile working classes than Douglas Hurd is.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • School
  • May

• Front-line officials, including DEA agents, border patrol and other homeland-security professionals, should remind Mr. Trump how important Mexico's assistance is in achieving his national-security goals.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Important
  • Goals
  • Trump

• I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Black
  • Lying
  • Innocent

• Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

  

  Andy Richter
  • King
  • Popular
  • Prom

• We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.

  

  Martin McGuinness