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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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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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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And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
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I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.
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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.
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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.