"Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China."

-- John Bruton

#Country Quotes #Three Quotes #Investment Quotes

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

Source : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.
“Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing”
“Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform”
“What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.”
“My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.”
“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.”
“When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.”
“We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.”

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