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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Malachy McCourt
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Malachy McCourt
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 20
Actor
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New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.
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When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
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The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
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I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
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I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
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I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
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There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
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Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
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I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
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Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
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I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
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There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.
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To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
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