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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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
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I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
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I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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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.
