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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.

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
Learned
Stop
Family
Speak
Tell
Judgmental
Children
Shut
Years
Married
Listen

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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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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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Never make any reference to the other person's family. You're just like your - because that is out, completely.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
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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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Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
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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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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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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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To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
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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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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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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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