Pete Hamill Quotes

You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.

Pete Hamill

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LifeYouOthersSomethingGotSell

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Hill

PowerSocietyProblemWayRealOut

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

LegalYouPigGoOutSausage

With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I'm going to do that.

Amir Khan

PeopleMeHelpI CanKnowWill

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Steve Earle

LeisureWorkaholicThingPasses

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Simon Schama

CricketKnowRepairWriteStudyTwo

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Banks

NobodyReasonAnythingDoes

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Denzel Washington

FatherKingKingsGoMoviesKid

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Courtney Love

FatherWomenMyselfMenGrowing Up

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

Clint Smith

FantasySlavesAbolitionReleased

My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.

Chuck Norris

WorkFamilyMotherChildrenGreat

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Bob Woodward

WayWatergateSeniorAnonymityHid

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Bodhidharma

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