Malachy McCourt Quotes
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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I quite like doing laundry. I find it quite like relaxing.
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'Power' has definitely been an immense stepping stone for me. It's opened up doors that I could only have dreamed of.
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Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
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The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
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I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
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What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
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Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
