Frank McCourt Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I don't know anything about a stock!
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And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them.
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Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
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No one but a fool is always right.
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No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?
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I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.
