Bertie Ahern Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.
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The first and best way to say 'no' to anyone is, 'How am I supposed to do that?' Now the other side actually has no idea as to the number of things you've done with them at the same time. You conveyed to them you have a problem.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
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I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
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We were always dead against the war.
