Malachy McCourt Quotes
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Malachy McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Felix Frankfurter
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
Barry Ritholtz
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
Zola Jesus
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Gavin Newsom
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Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.
Vernon Howard
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I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.
Richard Simmons
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
Karl Malone
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Malachy McCourt
