Michael Collins Quotes
We are a small nation. Our military strength in proportion to the mighty armaments of modern nations can never be considerable. Our strength as a nation will depend upon our economic freedom, and upon our moral and intellectual force. In these we can become a shining light in the world.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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One should feel in the right arm the vibration of the bow hair on the strings. ... The moment tension or hardness enters into the hand then of course the vibrations will not be felt- they cannot penetrate.
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There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
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I will:· Give Rajkot a modern scientific institution for measuring and managing earthquakes.· Make Rajkot the hub of tourism development in Saurashtra and Kutch.· Give priority to making Rajkot a centre for excellence in education.· Make Rajkot become the premier city, for not just Saurashtra, but also for Kutch.(Source). (20 February 2002).
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
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And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.
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If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
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We are a small nation. Our military strength in proportion to the mighty armaments of modern nations can never be considerable. Our strength as a nation will depend upon our economic freedom, and upon our moral and intellectual force. In these we can become a shining light in the world.
