"When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them."

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Source : "The Enchanting Solo Flight of Singer Aoife O’Donovan". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2016.

Aoife O'Donovan

#Song Quotes #People Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.”
“Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation”
“Today, we see ISIS dwindling. We see that terrorist organization, with all their bravado, losing their territory and going back from a proto-state to an underground terrorist organization.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”
“I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'”
“Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.”
“...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy”

Source : Raymond Khoury (2006). “The Last Templar”, p.273, Penguin
“I'm a believer that charisma makes a huge difference in people's decisions to follow you. However, it's not just that you say it well, but it's that you know it well. It helps if you can say it well enough that people want to follow you. Charisma isn't required, but it makes a big difference.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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