Frank McCourt Quotes
We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
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When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.
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I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s. Like many Americans at that time, I believed that the president should be required to shoulder the same obligations that we all carry.
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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
