Malachy McCourt Quotes
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
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My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
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I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.
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If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.
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When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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I get along really well with my father now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.
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I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.
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I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
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I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
