Pete Hamill Quotes

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

Pete Hamill

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ImaginationAmericanWantMafia

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

John Galsworthy

CommunicationEyesMouthBecomes

I only direct in self-defense.

Mel Brooks

Self-DefenseOnlyDirect

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

IntelligenceBetterWantPossible

I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.

Matt Kuchar

RandomGolfBagYouFindKind

As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.

Ronnie Musgrove

FatherChildrenKnowRelationships

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Rowan Atkinson

GoodJobYouSayNeedExplain

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Molly Ivins

FatherTroubleAuthorityAlwaysHad

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Miriam Makeba

BelieveI BelieveResourcesConfusion

At the end of the day, cycling is a business, so we have to be able to offer something to a sponsor, and without exposure, that's going to be difficult, but that's where the UCI perhaps has to be a little bit stronger.

Lizzie Armitstead

BusinessDayEnd Of The DayEnd

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

Josiah Royce

ManI AmUniqueLookKnowDone

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

Dominique Moceanu

SisterBornNeverUpWhoKnew

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

Douglas Brunt

PowerPoliticsMePoliticalPortrait

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