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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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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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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When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
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Overstimulation of the adrenal glands (with consequent exhaustion of the spirit) is the price of our incorporation within the male womb of the modern corporate society.
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
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I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
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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.
