Eamon de Valera Quotes
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.
Quotes to Explore
-
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
-
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
-
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
-
I have more friends in New York than Paris.
-
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
-
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
-
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
-
I have nothing to hide.
-
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
-
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
-
That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
-
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
-
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
-
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
-
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
-
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
-
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
-
People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
-
There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.
-
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
-
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.
