Pete Hamill Quotes
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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I'm a bed monster.
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
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I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. (14 January 1942)
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I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.
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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
