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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.

Malachy McCourt

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Malachy McCourt
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: September 20
Actor
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
Avoided
Bees
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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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I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
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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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It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.
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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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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
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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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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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Never make any reference to the other person's family. You're just like your - because that is out, completely.
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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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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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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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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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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
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Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town.
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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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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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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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