Pete Hamill Quotes
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
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I just like doing my job.
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We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti,Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit.Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus:Frangis, si vires experiere tuas.Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possisFlumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.
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If the EPA cannot or will not act to halt the toxic e-waste trade to developing nations, then Congress should take action.
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
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I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.
