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“I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.”

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“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.”

“I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."”

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Author:Ira Glass

“During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!”

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Author:David Trimble

“We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.”

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Author:David Trimble

“In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.”

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Book:An Irish Eye

Source: An Irish Eye

“For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.”

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Author:Gerry Adams

“I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.”

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Author:Suze Orman

“On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.”

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Author:Kate Adie

“Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”

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Author:Ahmed Yassin

“Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound?" Howie considers this. "Is it a pine forest, or oak?" "What's the difference?" "Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.”

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Author:Neal Shusterman

“...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.”

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Book:The Schwa was Here

Source: The Schwa was Here

“Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.”

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Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?”

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Author:Lord Mountbatten

“The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.”

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Author:Simon Heffer

“I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me”

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Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything.”

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Author:Grover Norquist

“IRAs are intended for retirement.”

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Author:Max Baucus

“The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.”

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Author:Albert Reynolds

“My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.”

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Author:Jack Higgins

“The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.”

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Author:Peter Hain

“The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.”

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Author:Steven Morrissey

“The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.”

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Author:Sean Kane

“A Democratic congressman said that he worries that the IRS scandal might have a chilling effect on the IRA and that they might be afraid to audit people. So finally some good is coming out of all of this.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Convert to IRA-based system.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.”

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Author:Sharon Osbourne

“Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.”

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Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.”

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Author:Peter Hain