Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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My life really began when I married my husband.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
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I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
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There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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It was in that semifloating state--that transition between the blissful suspension of awareness and the depths of total unconsciousness--that I first encountered the transparent weave of creature voices not only as a choir but as a cohesive sonic event. No longer a cacophony, it became a partitioned collection of vocal organisms--a highly orchestrated acoustic arrangement of insects, spotted hyenas, eagle-owls, African wood-owls, elephants, tree hyrax, distant lions, and several knots of tree frogs and toads. Every distinct voice seemed to fit within its own acoustic bandwidth.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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I don't have a go-to move, man; I just rush.
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Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
