Pete Hamill Quotes
The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
