Lady Gregory Quotes
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.
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I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?
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Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
