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Michael D. Higgins Quotes

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

Michael D. Higgins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: irish
Birth: April 18, 1941

Topics

Home Heart I Am Back Place Will

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'

Time Ocean Think Picture You Look

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Youth Outgrow Soon Defect Too

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Change Enough Fast Question Changing

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Education Acceptance School Parents

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

Love Business Time Small Enough

I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.

Work Fun People Have Fun Plan Never

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Water Reflection Memory Mind Movies

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Stanley Smith Stevens

Measure Statistics Constraints Used

I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved hip hop and reggae music, so we have always sort of refused a street style that is something that we are used to. Something that makes us comfortable and sounds good to us.

Good Music Style Loved Kind Street

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

God People Why Ask Where Something

Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom.

Wisdom Courage Immigration Boldness

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

Think I Think Horizons Terms

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