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.Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
Barbara Demick -
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg -
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.
Malin Akerman -
I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Sam Childers -
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
C. K. Williams -
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.
Pat Metheny -
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.
Wayne Newton -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
We should all love animals.
Karl Pilkington -
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.
Oprah Winfrey
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
Patrick Kane -
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.'
Dan Jenkins -
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot -
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.
Yelawolf -
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
Daisaku Ikeda -
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.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky -
The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
Frances Beinecke -
I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
Karen Salmansohn -
The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.
Christine Todd Whitman -
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Frank McCourt