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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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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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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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 think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
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Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.
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Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.
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I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
