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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The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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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.
