Malachy McCourt Quotes
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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I like retirement.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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I'm very, very blessed.
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
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The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
