Pete Hamill Quotes

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

Pete Hamill

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My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

John C. Mather

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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

John Oliver

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I didn't get the gene that makes me care about what other people think. I'm much like Trump that way. I don't really care. They're just words.

Ann Coulter

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All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

Jeff Sessions

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I wish the company and its associates all the best as Sears Holdings continues on its transformation.

Steve Mnuchin

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I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.'

Ry Cooder

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I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

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I want to be a dominant pass rusher. I think I can do that with my body type and my work ethic.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'

Peggy Lipton

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Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

Pauline Marois

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I shop at the farmers' market twice a week.

Sherry Yard

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