Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Quotes
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
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If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.
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It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.
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There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is.
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Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
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There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
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I don't remember [when I first visited the Berlin Zoological Garden]. To me, it was important that [in Germany] I could drink Coca Cola. In Romania, my father had bought me a bottle every now and then. To me, that was something really special. And mom and dad always told me, 'We are going somewhere you can drink as much Coke as you want'. To this day, Coke means so much more to me.
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Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.
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Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
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Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.
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When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.
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I'm all cried out, you should have seen me backstage before.
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If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
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A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.
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I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.
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Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active, work project.
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Being a woman is really crap.
