Michael D. Higgins Quotes
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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 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 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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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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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
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They never forgot That even the most dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.
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I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
