Frank McCourt Quotes
Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.Frank McCourt
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
Sam Peckinpah -
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
Katharine Anthony -
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Yuliya Snigir -
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco -
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
Jack Herer -
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
Jack Dangermond -
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
Barry Diller
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson -
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
Olivia De Havilland -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam -
People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
Taylor Sheridan
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If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?
Luis Gutierrez -
I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
Marcia Gay Harden -
I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
Kat Graham -
I'm a huge 'Bachelor' fan!
Lauren Lapkus -
Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.
Frank McCourt