Malachy McCourt Quotes
Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
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I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.
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If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
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Gettin at Weezy you comin through me-zy & I won't hesitate to do anyone greasy
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I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.
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What I did, anybody can do.
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
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I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
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There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.
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To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.
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That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
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I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.
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Cleaning and painting finished, the next target was the big ware press in the parlour. Out came delicate china which had been in the family for years. My mother's respect for the Stations weighed against her fear of breakage, but the Stations won every time. Once when a precious jug was broken she mourned it for days, telling us all how long it had been in the family. Finally, Dan, our part-time travelling farm worker, said, "Missus, if it was here that long it was time to break it." And that was the end of that.
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It's good to have fresh ingredients, but let's not completely ignore some frozen ingredients. Vegetables are absolutely brilliant because as soon as they come out of the ground they are prepared and frozen instantly.
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Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
