Pete Hoekstra Quotes
Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003? Should President Obama have withdrawn all troops from Iraq in 2011? Such questions provide no real insight into future considerations.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.
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Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
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The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
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Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003? Should President Obama have withdrawn all troops from Iraq in 2011? Such questions provide no real insight into future considerations.
