Gerry Adams Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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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.
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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.
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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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.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
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The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
