Frank McCourt Quotes
Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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I think there needs to be modified penalties in training camp because there's severely modified compensation in training camp for all of us.
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I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?
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Then brought they a fagot kindled with fire, and layd the same downe at D. Ridleys feete. To whome Maister Latymer spake in this maner: Be of good comfort maister Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by Gods grace in England, as (I trust) shall neuer be put out.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
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Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
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Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
