Michael D. Higgins Quotes
I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
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Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
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Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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I have not been keeping up with it as much as I should have maybe, because it’s certainly-This and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
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To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
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The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.
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I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.
