Mary McAleese Quotes
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
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Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
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We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
