Gerry Adams Quotes

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

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• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Done
  • Golf

• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Choose

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Me
  • Place
  • Heard

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Machine

• I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Work
  • High
  • Expectations

• Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Albums
  • Ridiculous

• Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Time
  • Important
  • Song

• When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?

  

  Bob Monkhouse

• I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Attention
  • Humans
  • Pay

• The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Age

• Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Wings

• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Situation
  • Comfortable
  • Room

• We are continuing to carefully monitor the situation throughout McDowell and several other southern counties, ... We are ready to help wherever needed.

  

  Bob Wise
  • Help
  • Situation
  • Monitor

• Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.

  

  Barnet Bain
  • Attention
  • Connection
  • Move

• You only go to Tennessee if you're a great player and want to compete at the highest level and want to get pushed. There's a certain kind of mentality that's there. This is a different kind of mindset that's been really important at the championship level.

  

  C. T. Vivian
  • Player
  • Championship
  • Tennessee

• In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

  

  Barbara Hurd
  • Magic
  • Dreams
  • Meditation

• If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

  

  Gerry Adams
  • Situation
  • Response
  • Armed