Pete Hamill Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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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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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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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Working with Rihanna has changed my life.
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It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.
