Pete Hamill Quotes

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

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• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Law
  • Facts
  • Jury

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
  • Today
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Decision
  • End
  • February

• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Good
  • Know
  • Politics

• A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Marketing
  • Plan

• 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.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• 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.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Good
  • Character
  • Lost

• I just like doing my job.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Job
  • Like
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • God
  • Victory

• 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.

  

  Ovid

• I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• I've already given you the answer on this subject, I have told you that I pay whatever tax I am required to pay under the law, not a penny more, not a penny less, and the suggestion that I am trying to evade tax, which is what you're putting forward, I find highly offensive and I don't intend to cooperate with you in the blackening of my character.

  

  Kerry Packer
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Law

• The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Men
  • Age

• In general I’m not a big fan of hip hop, even though I worked with Kanye. I did the Kanye stuff not because I’m a fan, but because for me it’s interesting to make some new music in an old style.

  

  Mike Levy
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Stuff

• I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.

  

  Alan Patricof
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

  

  Pete Hamill