Pete Hamill Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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I hope (the ban) doesn't backfire because there's so much stress and so much isolation. They offend because they don't really have good coping mechanisms and I'm afraid more stress is going to (cause the ban to backfire). They're already under Megan's Law -- community supervision for life -- and that's stressful for them. But add to that ... Where are you going to live? Where are you going to go?
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Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.
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I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
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Music is the only thing that I trust.
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It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.
