George Pelecanos Quotes

When I was 19, my dad got sick, and I quit college to take over his business, a coffee shop on 19th Street, below Dupont Circle in D.C. I had been working there since I was 11 years old, so it was not a stretch to think that I could do it, but my record as a teenager, in many respects, was less than stellar.

George Pelecanos

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1957

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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

Jimmy Wales

MediaYouGetBackgroundMuch

On climate change, we are told that there will be a civilization-ending development in the form of massive sea level rise as soon as 2050. Anybody plan to be here in 2050? I think a few of us do, myself included.

Jill Stein

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I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Andreja Pejic

PoliticsYourselfIdentityBigFan

My entire business model is to go on offense.

Andrew Breitbart

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I'm just a happy guy.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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I'm kind of living a Bruce Wayne life and then morphing into Batman, but I'm glad now Batman comes out during the day. That's kind of like how drag was: we were called upon at night to make people smile and laugh and clap.

Alyssa Edwards

LifeSmileDayPeopleNightLaugh

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.

Stephen Baldwin

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Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.

Masi Oka

FaithHeroYourselfYouJustAnyone

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

Rudy Giuliani

PowerDangerousNuclear PowerAgainst

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel de Montaigne

CommunicationAloneMindMeThought

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Drew Barrymore

BeautifulPeopleBetterHandsSex

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

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