Malachy McCourt Quotes
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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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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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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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The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
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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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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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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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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
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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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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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I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
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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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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
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That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
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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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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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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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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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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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I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
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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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When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
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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.