Pete Hamill Quotes
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
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The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
