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 never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.
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I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.
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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
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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.
