Ireland Quotes - Page 22

• He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. 
  (on Kevin Keegan)

  George Best

  Player, Boots, Kevin

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• If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.

  Roy Keane

  Want, Contracts, Threat

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• I still say the '94 Double team is the best. They could outfight you or outplay you, depending on the way you wanted it. But this side is moving in the same direction.

  Roy Keane

  Team, Moving, Way

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• The type of game I play, I'm going to pick injuries and suspensions, unfortunately.

  Roy Keane

  Games, Play, Injury

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

  John Collison

  Moving, Actresses, Hollywood

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• For men were born to pray and save:
  Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
  It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Gone, Praying

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

  John Lennon

  Song, Europe, Scotland

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

  John Lennon

  Song, Real, Singing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

  Nigel Farage

  Portugal, Crisis, Euro

  "Can Europe Be Saved? Should It?". rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

  Crispin Glover

  People

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• I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Feels

  "Eva Green Interview CAMELOT; Plus Updates on PERFECT SENSE and CALLAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

  Nicki Minaj

  Inspirational, Rapper, Play

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• The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

  John Hume

  Government, People, Unity

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

  Loretta Lynn

  Scotland, Mountain, England

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.30, Vintage

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• I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

  Colum McCann

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.

  Dylan Moran

  Fun, Aunt, Hands

  "Dylan Moran: 'Panel shows bore me'" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

  Michael W. Smith

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Sarcastic, Snakes, Want

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• Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

  Liam Neeson

  Art, Queens, Flags

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• Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number of literary geniuses, and at some level I probably never felt, having left as a toddler, that I had the right to try and add my voice. That's part of it. But I also didn't want to write something that was the equivalent of the Irish theme pub. You find them all over the world. The idea of producing a novel that might replicate that type of ersatz really set my teeth on edge.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Country, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  Eddie Murphy

  Years, Political, Get Better

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• I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Country, Want, Harm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Scotland, Environmental

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• Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

  David Icke

  Panic, Administration, Bail

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