"It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts."

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I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.

— Gerry Adams