Bertie Ahern Quotes
It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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Shady's great; I love Shady Records.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
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It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
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The Beatles' story is all of our stories.
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When forgetting someone becomes difficult. You don't understand what to do.
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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
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Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
