Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
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It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.
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'What’s that all about?' Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.
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I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.
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I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.
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Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
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I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.
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I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.
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Rascals are always sociable - more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
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Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.
