Pete Hamill Quotes
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.
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I've definitely stolen a lot of things.
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Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
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I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.
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None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
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The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
