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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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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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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I've had a few ditty hits.
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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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I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
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Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
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The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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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.
