"Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured."

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

Michael D. Higgins

#Comfort Quotes #Valuable Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. Iâ€™m with the blacks, because weâ€™re white trash. Weâ€™re going across the field. Theyâ€™re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, â€˜I tell you what: These doggone white peopleâ€™â€”not a word! Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

Source : "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.
“I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.”
“I really thought that love would save us all.”
“My roots are in my record player.”
“I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books
“Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I actually was worried about the pounding, but I actually love running more than working out on the elliptical. Now if I get on the elliptical, I feel like I'm trapped.”

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