"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games"

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Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

John Hume

#School Quotes #Two Quotes #Years Quotes

“I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.”
“I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.”
“As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.”
“Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear”
“The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.”
“It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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