Malachy McCourt Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Squares, People, Missing

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

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• 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

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  New York, Cities, Government

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

  Malachy McCourt

  Grateful, Sober, Drink

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

  Malachy McCourt

  Waiting, Broadcasting, I Can

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

  Malachy McCourt

  Energy, Sound

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Healing, Duty, Obligation

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

  Malachy McCourt

  Parent, Tragedy, Loses

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

  Malachy McCourt

  Writing, Goes On, Enjoy

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Suicide, People, Awful

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Looks, Substance, Look Up

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

  Malachy McCourt

  Men, Example, Stones

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Recovery, Disease, Incurable Disease

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Worry, One Day At A Time, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Lying, Drinking, Infidelity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

  Malachy McCourt

  Past, Care, Oppression

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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.

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• 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

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Writing, Hands, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Malachy McCourt

  Punishment, Hell

  Source: bigthink.com

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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."

  Malachy McCourt

  Competition, Towns, Follow Me

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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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.

  Malachy McCourt

  Moving, People, Today

  Source: bigthink.com

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