Martin McGuinness Quotes
You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.
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How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?
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'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
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You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
