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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We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
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Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.
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The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
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I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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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.
