Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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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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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
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The king is gone but he's not forgotten
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We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
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Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.
