Malachy McCourt Quotes
They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
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Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.
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If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
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It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before.
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.
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However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.
