Pete Hamill Quotes

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Work
  • Think
  • Serious

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• It ain't over till it's over.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Over
  • Till

• I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Regret

• Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Focus

• If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Think

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Night

• When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Art
  • Internet
  • Search

• Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• You never told me he was that fucking good.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Good

• I didn't mean to turn you on.

  

  Cheryl Anne Norton
  • Mean
  • Turns
  • Egotism

• I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, 'He must become a cantor in the synagogue,' but my mother said, 'No, he's going to be a concert pianist.'

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Mother
  • High
  • Parents

• Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi.

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Vision
  • Palestine
  • Luther

• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hope
  • Measures
  • Capability

• Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

  

  Pete Hamill