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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.
Malachy McCourt
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Malachy McCourt
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 20
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Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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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've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Never make any reference to the other person's family. You're just like your - because that is out, completely.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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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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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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