Frank McCourt Quotes
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.
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I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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I didn't really like being on television at all.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
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Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.
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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things are indulged in that would never be thought of if they were to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.
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Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
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Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nations vital domestic needs.
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One day a week should be set aside for field trips.
