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“I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.”
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“As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.”
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“I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.”
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“The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.”
Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 6, 2012.
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“Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.”
Source : Peter Wilson (2002). “Absolutism in Central Europe”, p.13, Routledge
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“Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.”
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“When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'”