Peter Hain Quotes
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.
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My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
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In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.
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You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
