Martin McGuinness Quotes
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
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I write in a small office at home.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
