Frank McCourt Quotes
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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People said that I had liposuction surgery, but you tell me how can a man of 230 kgs lose weight only with a prick of a needle.
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.
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When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.
