Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.
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Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
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Stetsons are the ultimate in cowboy headwear.
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When I do things, I'm all-in.
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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
