Frank McCourt Quotes

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

Frank McCourt

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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
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Doing
  • Challenges

• I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Friends
  • House

• Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Deep
  • Blues

• Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Actor

• If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Myself
  • Something
  • Point

• Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Coach

• To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Night
  • Decision
  • Basketball

• There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Girl

• Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Things
  • Caesar

• I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Said

• Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Great

• It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Important

• What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People
  • Music

• Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.You know it doesn't seem fair,That I'm living for something I can't even define.And there you are right there, in the mean time.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Character

• There is a town in north Ontario,With dream comfort memory to spare,And in my mind I still need a place to go,All my changes were there.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Mind
  • Dream

• [The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.

  

  George Will
  • Enemy
  • Pride
  • Loyalty

• In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

  

  Frank McCourt