Barry McGuigan Quotes
Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I care about Bahrain.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
