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Lady Gregory Quotes

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: March 15, 1852 - May 22, 1932

Topics

World Country Young Up Own Get

As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.

Suffering Early Say Jazz Singer Saw

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

Knowing May Away Us Get Like

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Ignorance Know Nothing Fact Except

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

Children Legal Friends Labor Know

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.

Love Music Heart People Me Sick

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

Never Social Fabric Been Tear

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

Family Heaven Cousins Wonderful Gone

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people. My older sister would be part of youth organizing, and she'd have dance parties. People would be dancing and talking about how to improve their neighborhood.

Dance Parents People Youth Sister

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

Confidence Feel Someone You Movies

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Work People Management Difficult

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

Time Job Back Never Afraid Well

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Saying Speak Down Immigrants Kind

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