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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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 -
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 -
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
Chris Abani -
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
Elvis Costello
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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Oscar Wilde -
If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
Pablo Sandoval -
We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.
Elizabeth Warren -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
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