Pete Hamill Quotes
I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
Pete Hamill
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I am not an American; I am the American.
Val Kilmer
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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
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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
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Language does not make one an elite.
Irrfan Khan
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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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
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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
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I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
Jerry Doyle
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Bill Nye
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
Jimmy Smits
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They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
Kelly Macdonald
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I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
Pete Hamill
