Frank McCourt Quotes
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
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College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation.
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Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
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The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.
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With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
