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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
Actor
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
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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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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've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
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Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
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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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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 would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
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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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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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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 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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Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
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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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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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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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