Pete Hamill Quotes
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
Quotes to Explore
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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And yet it moves.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
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It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
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I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.
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...The result of burning embassies and treading on flags is the self-same objective these drawings wanted to highlight. It was their intention to say that Muslims are terrorists and their religion is a peril to Western civilization.
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...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
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I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
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I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
