Pete Hamill Quotes

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

Pete Hamill

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• Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Light
  • Path

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Sister

• The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • See

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Communication
  • Media
  • Old

• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Always
  • Never
  • Born

• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Life
  • Live
  • End

• From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Value
  • Perspective
  • Canada

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • Art
  • Way

• Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• I'm really bad at describing my own life.

  

  Helmut Lang
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Describing

• It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Problem
  • Dreams
  • Start

• It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • Deep
  • Shallow

• In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Children
  • Job
  • Career

• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Life
  • Ends
  • Upside Down

• New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

  

  Pete Hamill