Malachy McCourt Quotes
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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For you do by nature want to do what you take to be good for you; reason reveals that what is in fact good for you is acting in a way that is conducive to the fulfillment of the ends or purposes inherent in human nature; and so if you are rational, and thus open to seeing what is in fact good for you, you will take the fulfillment of those ends or purposes to be good for you and act accordingly. This may require a fight against one’s desires and such a fight might in some cases be so extremely difficult and unpleasant that one might not have the stomach for it. But that is a problem of will, not of reason. It doesn’t show that the rational thing is not to struggle against one’s desires, but only that doing the rational thing can sometimes be extremely difficult and unpleasant.
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The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
