Michael D. Higgins Quotes

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Michael D. Higgins

• People
• Imagination
• Celebration
• Possibilities
• Island
• Decency
• Shared

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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Road

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Place
  • Being

• As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Citizens
  • Paid
  • Puerto Rico

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Growing
  • City
  • Building

• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Feeling
  • Romantic

• I think when everyone found out I was Moana, we got banana bread practically every night of the week. Aside from that, it's been really normal!

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • Night

• I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Job
  • Professional
  • Fly

• In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.

  

  Neymar

• I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

  

  Althea Gibson
  • Life
  • Live

• If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

  

  Billy Higgins
  • Question

• Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Up
  • Music
  • Movie

• Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • Help
  • Charity

• Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Good
  • Failure

• A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Country
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Writing
  • Career

• I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • People
  • Time

• One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • People
  • Hate

• I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

  

  Michael D. Higgins
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Celebration