Conor McPherson Quotes
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
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The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.
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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
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Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
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I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.
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You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.
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A man is only as faithful as his options.
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We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
