Kevin Barry Quotes

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'

Kevin Barry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: 1969

Topics

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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

Jerry Yang

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People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

Jenny Slate

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The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Newcomb

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I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

Tom Stoppard

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If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.

Tom Cotton

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Two years ago, of course, I was just a rookie and listened to everybody. In a way I am still a rookie. I'm only 23 and I'll be surrounded by great players who have played in a lot more Ryder Cups than myself. But the rankings say I am the best player at the moment and so that brings a responsibility.

Rory McIlroy

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I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff.

Roseanne Barr

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You earn the title of favourite when you win. It's not when people say you're a favourite because of past achievements; it's when you show it on the pitch.

Julen Lopetegui

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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Josh Turner

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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Douglas Sirk

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You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

Chris Matthews

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A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Clayton M. Christensen

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