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 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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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 reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard.
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When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
