Malachy McCourt Quotes
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If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
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The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
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Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.
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Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
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There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
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I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
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Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
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When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.
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I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
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Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
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The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
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I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.
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The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.
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That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
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Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
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That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
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This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
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My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
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I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
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I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.