Pete Hamill Quotes

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• There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Want
  • Drug
  • Tell

• Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • You
  • Say

• When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Painting

• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Been
  • Skin

• Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

  

  Carl Olson
  • God
  • Politics
  • Catholic

• That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Best
  • Riled

• The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Safe

• The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Nuclear Power

• I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Lesbian

• We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Leaving
  • Students

• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Year
  • Plan

• Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Important
  • She
  • Know

• I'm obsessed with making lists.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Making
  • Obsessed
  • Lists

• We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

  

  Ed Koch
  • God
  • Moment
  • Hands

• School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Environment
  • Hurt

• Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Job

• While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.

  

  L. Jon Wertheim
  • Cool
  • Reader
  • Big Game

• The biggest enemy of Islam is the ignorant Muslim, Whose ignorance leads him to intolerance whose actions destroy the true image of Islam. And when the people look at him, they think that Islam is what he is.

  

  Ahmed Deedat
  • Image
  • Destroy
  • Islam

• I want to stretch myself as an actor.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

  

  David Christian
  • World
  • History

• We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep Vladimir Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Energy
  • Rules
  • Dependent

• Everybody needs an editor.

  

  Pete Hamill