He was a very quiet guy, unlike the rest of the rabble, ... He had a low-key, wicked sense of humor. I had no idea that he was writing anything until someone called me up and said, 'Frank McCourt's written this amazing book,' which turned out to be 'Angela's Ashes.'


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See the ball; hit the ball.
PETE ROSE
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis mat...
PETE SAMPRAS
Never bet on baseball.
PETE ROSE
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells....
PETE SEEGER
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually strug...
PETE HOLIDAY
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
PETE ROSE
To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to ha...
PETE SEEGER
It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even ...
PETE GALLEGO
It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required ...
PETE STARK
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the ...
PETE TOWNSHEND
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER
With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportu...
PETE HEGSETH
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization again...
PETE HEGSETH
Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washingto...
PETE HEGSETH
The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity undersc...
PETE HEGSETH
As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to ...
PETE HEGSETH
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
PETE HEGSETH
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the sha...
PETE HEGSETH
Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both...
PETE HEGSETH
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted...
PETE HEGSETH
Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt ...
PETE DAVIDSON
Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
PETE HEGSETH
Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that m...
PETE HEGSETH
When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under ...
PETE HEGSETH
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
PETE HEGSETH
In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valia...
PETE HEGSETH
It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to takin...
PETE HEGSETH
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be ...
PETE HEGSETH
I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Inva...
PETE HEGSETH
I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand ...
PETE HEGSETH
The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the differe...
PETE HEGSETH
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught...
PETE WENTZ
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care...
PETE CARROLL
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need...
PETE CARROLL
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade ...
PETE MARAVICH
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I...
PETE SAMPRAS
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
PETE ROSE
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Vetera...
PETE HEGSETH
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ea...
PETE FOUNTAIN
I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
PETE ROSE
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it ...
PETE BEST
I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those l...
PETE WENTZ
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
PETE TOWNSHEND
You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for ...
PETE BURNS
Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b...
PETE ROSE
In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in redu...
PETE DOCTER
I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. S...
PETE WENTZ
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you...
PETE ROZELLE
I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
PETE WATERMAN
My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu...
PETE BURNS
I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' ...
PETE WENTZ
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally hav...
PETE HEGSETH