Pete Hamill Quotes
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
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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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To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.
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You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.
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No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.
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"I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table."
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I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
