"The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do."

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Michael D. Higgins

#Heart Quotes #Years Quotes #Creating Quotes

“Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.”
“We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people weâ€™d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the publicâ€™s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”
“Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.”
“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”
“My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.”
“I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 134), March 29, 1963.
“The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.”
“It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.”

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