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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
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New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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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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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
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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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Never make any reference to the other person's family. You're just like your - because that is out, completely.
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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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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've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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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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