Frank McCourt Quotes
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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We should all love animals.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
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I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.
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That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
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There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
