Frank McCourt Quotes
I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.Frank McCourt
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus -
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel -
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo HIM -
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking -
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz -
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
Ville Valo HIM -
We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
Randi Weingarten -
Politics won't allow for the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle -
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
Olivia Culpo -
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Jackie Robinson -
I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
Faith Evans -
You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
Ted Danson -
Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
D. B. Sweeney -
I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
B. D. Wong
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
Taylor Wilson -
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
Elie Wiesel -
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
Emile Zola -
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
John Maeda -
Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.
Chris Brogan -
I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.
Frank McCourt