"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Michael D. Higgins

#Independent Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.”
“Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down.”

Source : "The hardest FA Cup of all" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2003.
“The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when theyâ€™ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.”

Source : "Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World".
“If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.”
“We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!”

Source : "The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History" by Andrew Boston, Prometheus Books, (p. 682), 2008.
“Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.”
“While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.”

Source : "Bill De Blasio Reveals His Father Committed Suicide During Fight With Terminal Cancer" By Michael McLaughlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.
“In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.”

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