Martin McGuinness Quotes
There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.
