Gerry Adams Quotes

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Gerry Adams

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Feeling

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Russia

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • U.S.

• In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Up
  • Know
  • Picture

• When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Party
  • Moving

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • You
  • Serious

• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Race

• I've got the best shoe guy in the business.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Best

• I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Band
  • Stand
  • Greatest

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God

• Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Powerful

• Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

• It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Funny

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Small

• I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Life
  • Singing
  • Emotional

• Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

  

  Gerry Adams
  • War
  • Peace
  • Making