Pete Hamill Quotes
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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I love creative people.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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We need preachers. We need men who believe that this task and women who believe that this task is so great that not all the strategies in the world can make one soul converted.
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Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
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The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
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Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.
