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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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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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.
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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.
