Pete Hamill Quotes
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
