Michael D. Higgins Quotes

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Michael D. Higgins

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• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

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• If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

  

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• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

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• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

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• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

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• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

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• One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

  

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• I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

  

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• As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

  

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• In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.

  

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• I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play

  

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• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  

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• Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

  

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• The IMPAC is a terribly important award.

  

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• You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.

  

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• I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

  

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• Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

  

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• We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

  

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• I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.

  

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• Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

  

  Michael D. Higgins
  • Time
  • Wisdom
  • Comfort