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Pete Hamill Quotes

In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1935

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Good People Writing Worth Class Eat

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

Me Easy Done First Pretty Because

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

Bad Virtue Company Boundaries Email

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Impossible Done Everything

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.

New York New San Francisco Started

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

Health Silence Broken Insecurity

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Patriotism War Reaction Away Instant

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

Change You Over Everyone Steps Take

If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.

Life Vision Religion Practice Look

I'm just a character actor.

Character Actor Just Character Actor

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

Church Dialogue Must Promote

I was baptized Catholic, but I don't - I'm just a Christian. Anybody that has any room to judge any other Christian isn't very Christian to begin with.

Judge Christian Begin Room Just Any

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Thornton Wilder

Best Animals Talk Much About Thing

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