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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Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.
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I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.
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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
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I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
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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.
