Martin McGuinness Quotes
I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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I love design.
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
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Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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It's very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There's not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they're suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.
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You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
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The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)
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This system is a monster, ... In this decade, I believe we are going to double our audience.
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I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.
