Colum McCann Quotes
Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
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In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.
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I've always been looking for other people's approval.
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Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?
