Malachy McCourt Quotes
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
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Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.
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I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark.
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There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
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In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.
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When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
