Pete Hamill Quotes
In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
Pete Hamill
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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.
Oriana Fallaci
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
Najib Mikati
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
Ice Cube
In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
Oleg Cassini
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am the worlds laziest writer.
Oscar Peterson
One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
Natalie Cole
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
Adam Mansbach
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
Arthur Levitt
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
Brigham Young
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.
Joanne Whalley
I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
Kaya Scodelario
In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
Pete Hamill
