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.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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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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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.
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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
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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.
