Colum McCann Quotes

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

Colum McCann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 28, 1965

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Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.

Jo Cox

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I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Mayim Bialik

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I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Michael Ian Black

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I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Michel Houellebecq

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Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.

Mo Rocca

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I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

Jay-Z

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Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.

Derek Jacobi

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Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

Cherie Blair

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We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Claudio Hummes

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Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative health impacts from this constant exposure can add up.

Chuck Norris

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You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

Prince Philip

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