John Hume Quotes

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

John Hume

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• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

• Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Up
  • Justice

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • History
  • Age
  • Lie

• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Man
  • Fact
  • Hunter

• People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Money
  • Small

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Traditional
  • Oracle

• President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Greek
  • Oil
  • Transform

• Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Purpose
  • Fact
  • Obscure

• Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • You
  • Environment
  • Find

• But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Bother

• Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Musical
  • Directions
  • Remind

• Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Play
  • Stories
  • Musical

• I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Love
  • True
  • Present

• I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Heart
  • Way

• I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Violence
  • Sex

• I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

  

  John Hume
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Violence