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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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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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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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
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The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.
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There are loads of websites devoted to me.
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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
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In 2012, when Mitt Romney named Russia as our greatest geopolitical foe, Democrats scoffed and accused Republicans of trying to ignite a new Cold War.
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We were always dead against the war.
