Frank McCourt Quotes
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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I'm about my characters.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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My dad dated a lot of supermodels.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
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I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
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Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.
