Pete Hoekstra Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
-
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
-
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
-
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
-
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
-
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
-
Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
-
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
-
I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
-
I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
-
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
-
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
-
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
-
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
-
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
-
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
-
I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
-
I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
-
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
-
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
-
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
-
I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, "We're going to do it like Roger Corman did it," as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it's nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn't seem that fun. Maybe that's just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie.
-
Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.
