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Frank McCourt Quotes

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Story Help Born Poor Write

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

John O. Brennan

Education Violence Poverty Terrorism

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Robert Reich

Politics Done Up Give Powerlessness

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

John Podhoretz

History American Election Vote Only

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

Stephanie Savage

Outsider Point Like Everybody Some

I wear only animal socks. I went to Koreatown and got a hundred packs of panda and money prints.

Sofia Richie

Money Animal Socks Wear Got Only

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.

Rupert Friend

Relationship Think Process Weird

The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

Martin Rees

Challenge Energy Global Warming Clean

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

Michael Nielsen

Value Effort Data Open Share Most

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

Jonas Gahr Store

Nature Good Impact Logic Problem

I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

Donna Karan

Change People Me Know Boring Truly

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

Chris Isaak

Business Think Career Most I Think

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

Brad Pitt

Myself Pain Sleep War People Better