Michael D. Higgins Quotes
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
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Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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I started writing songs at age 15.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
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Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule.
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When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
