Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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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.
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I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
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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.
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I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
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Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.
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They're pretty simple. They don't have a lot of fancy gingerbread details. Everything is straight and flat and usually one-story.
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It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.
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I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!
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This shall hence become my music.
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God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.
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Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.
