Eamon de Valera Quotes
We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
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...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.
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You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
