Frank McCourt Quotes
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
Sam Smith -
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Irvine Welsh -
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant -
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx -
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama -
I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.
Natalie Cole
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass -
'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
J. Lee Thompson -
Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
Caitlyn Jenner -
This is the thing that I was born to do.
Samuel Daniel -
God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
Leonard Nimoy
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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
Anton Chekhov -
I don't have the attention span for sports.
Colbie Caillat -
When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.
Freddy Adu -
I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.
Khloe Kardashian
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Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
David Ogden Stiers -
Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.
Curtis Hanson -
I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.
Michelle Monaghan -
One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
Darren Shan -
If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.
Laura Ingraham -
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
Frank McCourt