I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.' Pete Hamill More Quotes by Pete Hamill More Quotes From Pete Hamill Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations. Pete Hamill long-timehatetimelong What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect? Pete Hamill aboutwereperfectmen Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture. Pete Hamill performancetoughcultureway The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia. Pete Hamill angerpoliticspowerfulnostalgia He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. Pete Hamill swordsomeoneangrystage I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker. Pete Hamill citynewalwaysborn When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics. Pete Hamill newspaperkidambitionwanted
