Latest Malachy McCourt Quotes from Interviews

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• That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

  Malachy McCourt

  Punishment, Hell

  Source: bigthink.com

• Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

  Malachy McCourt

  Want, Moments, Do Whatever You Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

  Malachy McCourt

  Dream, Arrows, Weapons

  Source: bigthink.com

• There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

  Malachy McCourt

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

• I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

  Malachy McCourt

  Stupid, War, Destiny

  Source: bigthink.com

• There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

  Malachy McCourt

  New York, Cities, Government

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Squares, People, Missing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

• Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

  Malachy McCourt

  Like You, Persons

  Source: bigthink.com

• I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

  Malachy McCourt

  New York, People, Complaining

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Father, Drinking, Leaving

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

  Malachy McCourt

  Song, Silly, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

• To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

  Malachy McCourt

  Parent, Tragedy, Loses

  Source: bigthink.com

• Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

  Malachy McCourt

  Democracy, Speak, Persons

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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

  Children, Years, Married

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Children, Games, Media

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Real, Differences, Violence

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Office, Corporations, Computer

  Source: bigthink.com

• I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

  Malachy McCourt

  Cigarette, Used, Philanderer

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

• The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

  Malachy McCourt

  Rights, Giving, Corporations

  Source: bigthink.com

• Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

  Malachy McCourt

  Body, Trade, Humans

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

  Malachy McCourt

  Party, Thinking, Names

  Source: bigthink.com

• I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

  Malachy McCourt

  Men, Bigs, Great Faith

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Awful, Disease, Dread

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Suicide, People, Awful

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• 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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Worry, One Day At A Time, Way

  Source: bigthink.com