"Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it"

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Source : William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press

William V. Shannon

#Fall Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Light Quotes

“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”
“It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.”
“Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”
“Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.”

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“Iâ€™ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Edâ€™s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I donâ€™t think Ed puts himself in that class.”
“The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.”
“I don't know how women will feel safe.”

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“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”

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