Peter MacKay Quotes

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Peter MacKay

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Bad
  • You
  • Name

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Know

• I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Believe
  • True
  • I Believe

• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Government
  • Independence

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • You
  • Better
  • More

• If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • You
  • Fight
  • Rights

• I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Hungry
  • Victories
  • Defeats

• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Parents

• When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Today
  • Law

• Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Politics

• I believe in the jury system.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Jury

• To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • Change
  • Spirit

• Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Time
  • Long
  • Past

• Music was always a part of my life.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Life
  • Music

• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Character
  • Notion
  • Regardless

• After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Future
  • Decided
  • University

• You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

  

  Peter MacKay