Frank McCourt Quotes

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

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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
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  • 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

• 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
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• 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

• So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Career

• It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students 'learn how to learn' and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Important
  • Focus

• I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

  

  Elizabeth of the Trinity
  • God
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • People
  • Work

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

  

  Frank McCourt