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Pete Hamill Quotes

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Reading Thinking Beyond Out Weekly

I just need to be me.

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

Women House White Strange Away Give

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

Light People Sympathy Understanding

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Great People World Powerful Nation

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

Love People Care Who Applause

I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's like.

Live Think Feel Important Social

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

Drive Energy Hands Kid Anything Get

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

Work Grateful Help Young Single Had

From the way I sing to what I write about to what I put out with my stamp separates me from everyone else.

Me Way Write Everyone Out Sing

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

Jonathan Carroll

Life Best Better My Life Late Know

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Good Happiness Business Job Joy

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Government Bond Learn Hidden Secret

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