Charles Haughey Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
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While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.
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I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
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As a community we are living way beyond our means
