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IrishCentral’s top ten quotes of 2011 - from the wacky to the profound - PHOTOS

Barack Obama, Damian McGinty, Queen Elizabeth and Rory McIlroy make the list

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BERNIE MALONE,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, January 5, 2012, 7:33 AM
Updated Thursday, January 5, 2012, 12:51 PM

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President Barack Obama and his wife on stage in Dublin
President Barack Obama and his wife on stage in Dublin
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PHOTOS - Here’s slideshow of our top quotes

With one last look back as we begin 2012, here is a run down of some of the most memorable and crazy quotes of 2011.

1. Charlie Sheen during his downward spiral:

On his natural high: "I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body." ("20/20.")

Read More: Charlie Sheen named the Highest Paid Actor on TV by Forbes

2. Barack Obama on his ancestor Falmouth Kearney leaving Offaly in search of the American Dream:

“It's the dream that Falmouth Kearney was attracted to when he went to America. It's the dream that drew my own father to America from a small village in Africa. It's a dream that we've carried forward, sometimes through stormy waters, sometimes at great cost, for more than two centuries. And for my own sake, I'm grateful they made those journeys because if they hadn't you'd be listening to somebody else speak right now.”

Read More: Obama in Ireland gets pint's worth of coverage in U.S.

3. Queen Elizabeth in her speech at Dublin Castle:

“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”

4. Revealed in the Jackie Onassis Kennedy tapes this year, her impression of the Irish:

“There seems to be all these Irish-- they always seem to have a persecution thing about them” she said.

Read More: Jackie Kennedy disliked the Irish and cooking Irish stew

5. Damian McGinty on winning ‘The Glee Project’; he told IrishCentral.com:

“This doesn’t happen to people from Ireland, especially from Derry, it just doesn’t happen. To get to be on the biggest TV show in America is just a dream come true.”

Read More: Damian McGinty explains how he cracked the cast of ‘Glee’

PHOTOS - Here’s slideshow of our top quotes

6. In his inaugural speech, Michael D Higgins, the ninth President of Ireland, called on the Irish Diaspora to aid the country’s recovery:

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IrelandNorth | Jan 06, 2012, 05:59 AM EST
Hope it's not undiplomatic to opine, but Michelle O'Bama is one seriously sexy woman. My compliments to Mr. President in his choice of women. Despite Michael D[aniel] being a genuine guy, he's still the best president successive opinion polls could manufacture by a southern political establishment in cahpoots with a ventriloquist partitionist press.

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Dailearie | Jan 06, 2012, 01:04 AM EST
I wish the queen would give Northern Ireland back so Ireland could be one country. I get angry every time I look at a map of Ireland and see that red spot. Ten martyrs should not have starved for nothing. I am an American and still it matters to me. I was told stories. My grandmother saw the Famine. Just do the right thing. Give it back.

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ciarajoyce | Jan 05, 2012, 01:10 PM EST
Have you considered leaving Sinead O'Connor alone? Perhaps if every move she makes and everything she says isn't rehashed in the newspapers, she'll be able to live a somewhat normal life. It's not necessary to follow her around and report on every action in her life. No one can live under a microscope. Think how you'd feel.

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Murph46 | Jan 05, 2012, 09:51 AM EST
Rory DID NOT WIN THE US MASTERS! Get it right if you are going to print it-he coked in the Masters-Won the US OPEN!

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