Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
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• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
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• It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
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• Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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  • Remember

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

  

  Laura Fraser
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• Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

  

  Carly Schroeder
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• When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.

  

  Eddy Cue
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• Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.

  

  Callie Hernandez
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• If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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  • Country

• Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
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• It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

  

  James Norton
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  • Courage

• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  

  David Soul
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• I think our fans seem to be really loyal they always have been. If we kind of make a change you know, they'll kind of be like oh, cool and just kind of go with the flow which has been really good.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
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  • Change
  • Fans

• Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

  

  John C. Mather
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• Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
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