Frank McCourt Quotes
We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
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When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.
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We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.
