Malachy McCourt Quotes
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
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John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.
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I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
