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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
Politician
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New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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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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We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
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They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
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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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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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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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Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
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Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
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If you look up the word gab in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
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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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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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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 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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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
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The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.
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I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
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To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
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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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