Pete Hamill Quotes
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
Adam Grant -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
Nancy Allen -
The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
Naoto Kan
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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
Gabrielle Union -
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
Raghuram Rajan -
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
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 -
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
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
Rachel Nichols -
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 -
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 -
Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
Quentin Crisp -
I do not care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a zebra. I'm the manager of this team, and I say he plays. What's more, I say he can make us all rich. And if any of you cannot use the money, I will see that you are all traded.
Jackie Robinson -
Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
Ban Ki-moon -
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
Hans Haacke -
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
Andrew Motion -
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Lao Tzu -
Everybody needs an editor.
Pete Hamill