Frank McCourt Quotes
There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.Frank McCourt
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
Action Bronson -
I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
Becky Lynch
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I don't believe in miracles.
Sam Simon -
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner -
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
Uta Hagen -
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
Victoria Secunda -
You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
Rachel Cohn -
I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
Nadine Velazquez -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. Lawrence -
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
Indira Gandhi -
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.
Lee Brice -
True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.
Confucius -
There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.
Frank McCourt