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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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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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
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Memories just get richer with time.
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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
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I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
