#real

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#experience #forward #go #ideals #language

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#i #like #lyrics #realized #sing

I can never really enjoy being famous. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#being famous #enjoy #famous #i #i can

I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America! ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#big #changed #company #determined #feel

Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#being #confused #i #image #like

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#been #boring #eccentric #haven #i

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#career #i #important #keep #me

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#back #consider #even #friends #frightened