George Bernard Shaw Quotes
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.George Bernard Shaw
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
Eddie Marsan -
My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone -
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Harold E. Varmus -
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison -
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Olivia Wilde -
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
Ian Paisley -
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
Oliver St. John -
The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
Zoe Kravitz -
In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
Natasha Leggero -
Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
Dan Pink -
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
Harrison Ford
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Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.
Sam Neill -
There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.
Daniel Hope -
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
Paul Theroux -
I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.
Martha McSally -
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
Dave Gibbons
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Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.
Niall Horan One Direction -
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Charles Trevelyan -
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
Rand Paul -
What is the seal of liberation? - No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
George Jean Nathan -
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
George Bernard Shaw