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Jim Gibbons

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Irish politician (1924-1997)

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  • Flashbacks
  • Fall Boys and Spring Girls
  • Short Order Crooks
  • Golden Rule
  • Blood Brothers

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Quotes

  • Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]… go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else…. It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq]."
  • Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist.
  • Look at the movie 'Wag the Dog, I think this has all the elements of that movie. Our reaction to the embassy bombings should be based on sound, credible evidence, not a knee-jerk reaction to try to direct public attention away from his personal problems.
  • One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Jim
Family name
Gibbons
Gender
male
Citizenship
Irish Free State
Place of birth
County Kilkenny
Place of death
Kilkenny
Occupation
farmer
Political party
Fianna Fáil
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Jim Gibbons, 1979 (cropped).jpg
Number of children
11
Work location
Brussels
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date of birth
1924-08-03
date of death
1997-12-20
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Jim Gibbons
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