Martin McGuinness Quotes
My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I am just one human being.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen.
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I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
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Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!
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My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
