Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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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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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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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
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I've always gone for the more understated look.
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When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.
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Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.
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Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges.
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.
