Bernadette Devlin Quotes
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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Votes should be weighed not counted.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
