Martin McGuinness Quotes
As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
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We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.
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Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.
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If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
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Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
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As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
