Pete Hamill Quotes
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
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Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
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At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.
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Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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He still must answer this vital question directly.
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Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
