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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In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
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It felt terrible but I was glad I played all the way through so I didn't have to sit down and have it stiffen up. It stiffened up real bad at halftime but I managed to get through it.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
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The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.
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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
