Frank McCourt Quotes
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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I can do a gig without an instrument.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
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I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me?
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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That is the saddest thing: He Prince always thought I would die of a drug overdose, and here it happens he dies of an accidental overdose.
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Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
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God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.
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When I get to the Good Place I will continue to fight the Devil even harder.
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We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
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I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.
