Michael D. Higgins Quotes
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.
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It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.
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As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
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When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
