"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."

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"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."

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"For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic."

"I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics."

"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."

"You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous."

"We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely."

"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."

"To marry the Irish is to look for poverty."

"I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess."

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"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."

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"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke."

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds."

"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."

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"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."