Pete Hamill Quotes
As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.
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Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.
