Malachy McCourt Quotes
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Free love sounds great.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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Love, and do what you like.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
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Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch between payment providers and creates less competition for services.
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.
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I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.
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It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
