Pete Hamill Quotes
Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.Pete Hamill
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
Dana Boente -
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. Joshi -
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone -
I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush -
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
Gail Porter -
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder -
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
Becky G -
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith
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I'd never been published when I was young.
Jack Vance -
The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
Kaley Cuoco -
No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
Pat Gillick -
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel -
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
Olga Kurylenko -
To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
Hamza Yusuf
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I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
In syndication, the biggest buyers are car dealerships.
Bill Engvall -
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Peggy Noonan -
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn -
I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
Sam Riley -
Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.
Pete Hamill