Frank McCourt Quotes

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

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When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

Jessica Scorpio

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The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Jerry Brown

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Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. She wrote the playbook for it. There is no female pop star - and probably few men today, for that matter - who are not indebted to her in one way or another for her contributions to the industry.

Jeremy Scott

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We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Andrew Cohen

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I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.

Ann Rinaldi

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ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

Rupert Murdoch

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There's one race that we have to worry about, and it's the human race.

Michael T. Flynn

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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates

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It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Dev Hynes

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If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

Douglas Rushkoff

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More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Anthony Anderson

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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz

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