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.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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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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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 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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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
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Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I want it all: I want the attention and live for the glory nights.
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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.
