Imelda May Quotes
My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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A kind of happy that, if manifested into tangibility, would've taken the shape of a daisy.
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Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.
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My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
