Pete Hamill Quotes

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Resistance

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Language does not make one an elite.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Language
  • Does
  • Elite

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

  

  David Antin
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• Nobody is suggesting that the NHS doesn't have to reform, nobody is suggesting that it doesn't have to become more efficient, that productivity growth doesn't have to become positive … The only difference is that in health, because of the demographic pressure, the savings will all – and more – have to be reinvested in delivering more healthcare.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Health
  • Positive
  • Growth

• When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Society
  • Desire

• Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don't want to be related to anything like that.

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Up
  • Money

• I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

  

  Pete Hamill
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