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 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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My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
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This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
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The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!
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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?
