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Quote Unquote  “I
wanted him to change the title and call it ‘Fair Vanity.’
He said he’d do that just as soon as I change the band’s name
to 2U.” Bono on Vanity Fair editor Grayson Carter. Bono was guest
editor of the July issue. – The New York Times
“Our Irish roots run really deep in East Tennessee, and I’m
especially proud of my Irish heritage. You can bet I’m gonna show
folks a jig or two of my own!” Dolly Parton quoted in The Irish
Voice
“It was my decision; it was my mistake. I have to take responsibility
for that, which I’m trying to do.” Billy Donovan, who backed
out of a five-year, $27.5 million deal with the Orlando Magic to
remain coach at the University of Florida. – The New York Times
“It is inevitable that as an Irish man I want to fight in Ireland,
and of course, I’d like to go home. I’ll be going home and
showing my family and friends what I have been learning, but New York
is my home as a boxer. And I’ll be on a flight back here straight
after the fight.” John Duddy on his upcoming fight in Ireland this
summer. – The Irish Voice
“I hope they’re a success. But why is [Gore] actually organizing
them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody’s known
about the problem for years. We are all f***ing conscious of global warming.”
Bob Geldof on Al Gore’s Live Earth Concerts. – The Irish Voice
 “Why
has the land of ‘all men are created equal’ forged countless
ghettoes and intricate networks of social exclusion?
Why the signs reading ‘No Irish Need Apply’? And why has each
new generation of immigrants had to face down a
rich glossary of now unmentionable epithets? Disdain for what is foreign
is, sad to say, as American as apple pie, slavery and
lynching.” Kenneth C. Davis, the author of Don’t Know Much
About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but
Never Learned, writing on the failure of the government to bring about
immigration reform. –The New York Times
“We’re Irish. Yeah we’re real Irish. We’re not
fake, your-generation Irish...I know you guys are like, ‘my feelings,’
and you talk it out. We don’t talk it out.” Denis Leary in
The New York Times on how his Irish family settles things. |
