Malachy McCourt Quotes
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
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President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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I think all politicians lie.
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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
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Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
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Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.
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There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
