Frank McCourt Quotes
Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Free love sounds great.
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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I am proud of what I've done.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
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I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.
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I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.
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Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
