Malachy McCourt Quotes
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
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When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.
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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.
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Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.
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French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.
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I don't like parties. If I did, there would be pictures of me more often in Gala magazine.
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The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
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"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
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I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.
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When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security.
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What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.
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When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.
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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
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I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.
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It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
