Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Libya is a huge disaster.

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• William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Being
  • Through

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Success
  • Team
  • Practice

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Time
  • World
  • Man

• I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • American
  • America

• The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Working
  • Line
  • Destination

• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Sex
  • For Her

• I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Time
  • Same
  • First Time

• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Done
  • American

• You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Start
  • Be Great

• An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Girl
  • Surprise
  • Engagement

• It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Apology

• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, 'A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it.' People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 'I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.'

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Learning

• This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Age
  • Heaven

• I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • People
  • Friends

• People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

  

  William Deresiewicz
  • People
  • Important
  • Things

• How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Ambition
  • Devil

• Libya is a huge disaster.

  

  Pete Hoekstra