Frank McCourt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Walk up and down the stairs ten times a day. Do an hour's walking. Release toxins just so that you feel happy. Drink a lot of water; sleep on time.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.
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Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.
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It is an intern's job to go for coffee for anyone who asks, preferably delivering it scalding hot and cupped in your bare hands!
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If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
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I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.
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I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.
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I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
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I never really fit in anywhere.
