"People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues."

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Fionnula Flanagan

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“I need music like I need water.”
“Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?”

Source : Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.107, A&C Black
“I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.”
“Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.”
“I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.”
“At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.”

Source : "Paula Radcliffe set for surgery as Olympic preparation begins" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.
“Maybe the biggest misconception humanity has about itself is that by gaining more power over the world, over the environment, we will be able to make ourselves happier and more satisfied with life. Looking again from a perspective of thousands of years, we have gained enormous power over the world and it doesn't seem to make people significantly more satisfied than in the stone age.”
“Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.”

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