I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.


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I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.
PETE GALLEGO
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player...
PETE ROSE
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a diffe...
PETE ROSE
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
PETE ROSE
I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyel...
PETE WENTZ
If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
PETE HAMILL
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
PETE DOCTER
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
PETE DOHERTY
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could ...
PETE WENTZ
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, befor...
PETE TOWNSHEND
I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoyi...
PETE DAVIDSON
But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the p...
PETE TOWNSHEND
Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the ga...
PETE SAMPRAS
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ...
PETE ROSE
I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the groun...
PETE DOMENICI
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don'...
PETE ROZELLE
The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't t...
PETE HAMILL
I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like ...
PETE WENTZ
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are pla...
PETE ROSE
I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
PETE ROSE
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shel...
PETE EARLEY
'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
PETE HAMILL
If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But th...
PETE SAMPRAS
One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene...
PETE GALLEGO
Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while t...
PETE PLOSZEK
I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
PETE WENTZ
The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, t...
PETE SESSIONS
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old....
PETE ROSE
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audie...
PETE POSTLETHWAITE
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperati...
PETE GALLEGO
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in th...
PETE SAMPRAS
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support ...
PETE WENTZ
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of ...
PETE TOWNSHEND
Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili...
PETE HAMILL
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
PETE WENTZ
If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I...
PETE BURNS
I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE
Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very s...
PETE TOWNSHEND
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth ...
PETE MCCLOSKEY
I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that...
PETE ASHDOWN