Pete Hamill Quotes
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
Quotes to Explore
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
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Why don't you go and take some more drugs, you druggie?
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I haven't had time to review the entire audit but, from what I have seen, it appears that we're in good shape and things are looking up for us. We hope to continue improving.
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The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
