Barry McGuigan Quotes
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
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Make those important in your life smile today That smile is the most important thing you did today.
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
