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PETE HAMILL One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M....
PETE HAMILL Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of...
PETE HAMILL I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. T...
PETE HAMILL The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T...
PETE HAMILL What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
PETE HAMILL If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
PETE HAMILL The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't t...
PETE HAMILL 'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
PETE HAMILL Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili...
PETE HAMILL Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
PETE HAMILL To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than t...
PETE HAMILL The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its wri...
PETE HAMILL Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
PETE HAMILL There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, th...
PETE HAMILL Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - ho...
PETE HAMILL As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put the...
PETE HAMILL In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fi...
PETE HAMILL An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there migh...
PETE HAMILL It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.
PETE HAMILL Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. ...
PETE HAMILL If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you ...
PETE HAMILL All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
PETE HAMILL Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in ...
PETE HAMILL Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for...
PETE HAMILL Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for B...
PETE HAMILL Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfec...
PETE HAMILL When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City to...
PETE HAMILL I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I ...
PETE HAMILL The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted ...
PETE HAMILL I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In ...
PETE HAMILL In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the report...
PETE HAMILL There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward R...
PETE HAMILL This is truly marvelous work: full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
PETE HAMILL The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
PETE HAMILL One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'Th...
PETE HAMILL Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by...
PETE HAMILL "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen ...
PETE HAMILL He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded ...
PETE HAMILL He was a very quiet guy, unlike the rest of the rabble, ... He had a low-key, wicked sense of humor....
PETE HAMILL He became out of step with the basic audience, because they didn't believe it. And I think that was ...
PETE HAMILL It's a good demonstration of will for any terrorist outfit to consider. If they knocked out every su...
PETE HAMILL Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
PETE HAMILL New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.
PETE HAMILL For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public lib...
PETE HAMILL We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and s...
PETE HAMILL The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home ...
PETE HAMILL People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. T...
PETE HAMILL My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it ...
PETE HAMILL Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices a...
PETE HAMILL I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of ...
PETE HAMILL Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
PETE HAMILL I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
PETE HAMILL In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was th...
PETE HAMILL I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do ...
PETE HAMILL Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa...
DOROTHY HAMILL Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you shou...
DOROTHY HAMILL I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.
MARK HAMILL I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, fur...
MARK HAMILL Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater i...
DOROTHY HAMILL I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
DOROTHY HAMILL At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
DOROTHY HAMILL Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ...
MARK HAMILL I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole ...
MARK HAMILL The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily...
DOROTHY HAMILL I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and...
MARK HAMILL In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they would...
MARK HAMILL I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and creat...
MARK HAMILL I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul...
DOROTHY HAMILL It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, st...
DOROTHY HAMILL At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affect...
MARK HAMILL I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal state...
MARK HAMILL When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a con...
MARK HAMILL Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, ...
DOROTHY HAMILL I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.
MARK HAMILL When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peg...
DOROTHY HAMILL I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looke...
DOROTHY HAMILL There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on te...
DOROTHY HAMILL I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms,...
DOROTHY HAMILL I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and...
DOROTHY HAMILL My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and...
DOROTHY HAMILL My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the h...
DOROTHY HAMILL I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.
MARK HAMILL Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's ...
MARK HAMILL I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.
MARK HAMILL You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.
MARK HAMILL Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the ca...
MARK HAMILL I think theatre has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.
MARK HAMILL Luke: Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator.
MARK HAMILL Luke : How did my father die?
Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine...
MARK HAMILL [griping about Tatooine]
If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that ...
MARK HAMILL I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every positio...
MARK HAMILL It was hot, it was sexy.
DOROTHY HAMILL God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind...
ROBERT HAMILL [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's ...
MARK HAMILL I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas wou...
MARK HAMILL I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry d...
MARK HAMILL I did predict that this thing was going to be bigger than 'Planet of the Apes,' and that's a quote.
MARK HAMILL I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an ...
DOROTHY HAMILL Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful po...
DOROTHY HAMILL When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I us...
MARK HAMILL They're always trying to fix the judging system, (but) it's not the judging system, it's the judges....
DOROTHY HAMILL I am thankful for this flattering and great honor.
DOROTHY HAMILL We were all hoping for Michelle still yet to come, but you know, Sarah Hughes skated to win [Thursda...
DOROTHY HAMILL Skating With the Celebrities
DOROTHY HAMILL One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you'r...
MARK HAMILL In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. Th...
DOROTHY HAMILL 'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
MARK HAMILL Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even kno...
MARK HAMILL I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character...
MARK HAMILL In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties becaus...
DOROTHY HAMILL My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.
DOROTHY HAMILL I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave...
DOROTHY HAMILL I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms th...
MARK HAMILL I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M...
DOROTHY HAMILL A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when ...
DOROTHY HAMILL Money is evil.
DOROTHY HAMILL You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake afte...
DOROTHY HAMILL I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't f...
DOROTHY HAMILL I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I...
DOROTHY HAMILL I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.
DOROTHY HAMILL I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
PETE SEEGER My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn'...
PETE TOWNSHEND It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but...
PETE BURNS When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for...
PETE TOWNSHEND It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thin...
PETE BURNS I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag...
PETE BURNS Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation jus...
PETE CARROLL When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to str...
PETE MARAVICH I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a co...
PETE ROSE It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETE TOWNSHEND Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
PETE ROSE I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat...
PETE SEEGER Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.
PETE GALLEGO I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.
PETE WENTZ Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely movi...
PETE DOMENICI I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes...
PETE BURNS We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in whic...
PETE SEEGER Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.
PETE SEEGER A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't hav...
PETE ROSE My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practic...
PETE ROSE I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewis...
PETE SEEGER If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, futur...
PETE SERMOND The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and ...
PETE SAMPRAS 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...
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Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

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