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Charles Madigan
"It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster."
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Source : "Patrick, We Hardly Knew Ye". Chicago Tribune Article, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.
Charles Madigan
#Party Quotes
#Monsters Quotes
#Legends Quotes
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“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”
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“I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.”
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“It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.”
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“You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.”
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“Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.”
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“It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.”
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“I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.”
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“Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?”