Hacks Quotes

• Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

  Bette Midler

  Can Do, I Can

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• John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

  Matt Taibbi

  Men, Blue, Self

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• Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

  Anil Dash

  Morning, Home, Funeral

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2013

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• That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.

  Polybius

  Friendship, Country, Mistake

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• And did you have to hack his arms off?” “Yes, I did. He wouldn’t go through the door.” “You say it like you’re proud of it." I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Doors, Difficult Situations

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.144, Penguin

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• We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

  William Faulkner

  Money, Littles, Might

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• Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

  Bruce Schneier

  People, Computer, Security

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• You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.

  William A. Connelly

  Writing, Army, Challenges

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• I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack.

  Brian Skrudland

  Hockey, Player, Thinking

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• We have the greatest negotiators in the world, we have the greatest business people in the world, we don't use them. We use political hacks. So we have a trade deficit of almost $800 billion.

  Donald Trump

  People, Political, Use

  Source: time.com

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• Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Writing, Artist

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories”, p.46, H. P. Lovecraft

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• When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

  George Orwell

  Tired, Blood, Iron

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• Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

  Dennis Lehane

  Grief, Heart, Cutting

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• Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

  Darrell Issa

  People, Want, Information

  Speech at the House Judiciary hearing, www.cnet.com. April 24, 2008.

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• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

  Conrad Black

  Commitment, Numbers, Views

  "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

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• I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

  Adam Shankman

  Artist, Thinking, Mia

  Source: collider.com

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• Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.

  Jens Lekman

  Dream, Song, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.

  William Monahan

  Novelists, World, Enterprise

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to make sure there's a lock on your phone because people can hack into your Twitter so fast.

  Jordan Francis

  Phones, People, Locks

  "Catching up with Camp Rock 2's Jordan "JMan" Francis!". Interview with Teen Mag, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

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• Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Father, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Language, Made

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• And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

  Julia Ormond

  Views, Going Out, Pace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

  Nick Denton

  Interesting, Bars, Stories

  "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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• One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Trying

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• The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Hate, America, Self

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