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.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Author

• 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.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Last

• 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.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Truth
  • True

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Free

• 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!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Done
  • Proud

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Power
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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.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Happy
  • Black

• 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.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
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  • Thought
  • Stronger

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • You
  • Cool

• There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Fall
  • Democracy

• I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

  

  Chloe Sevigny

• As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • Money
  • Law

• In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • America
  • Government
  • Nationalist

• Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

  

  Frank McCourt
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  • Kids
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