Douglas Hyde Quotes

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Douglas Hyde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 17, 1860 - July 12, 1949

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I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

Jillian Michaels

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But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

Jim Coleman

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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

Jeremy Brett

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Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.

John Lanchester

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My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

Michael Imperioli

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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

Simon Sinek

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The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

Tom Reiss

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The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

Robin Marantz Henig

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If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education is an essential investment.

Julia Gillard

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People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Joyce Carol Oates

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They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.

Debra Stephenson

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And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Steinberg

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