Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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Full House gave me Tourette's. We would be on the set, and, action! 'Okay, Michelle, you can't have a horse in the house-' and, cut! 'Cock shit fuck!'
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I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
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The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.
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It is not how much you have, but with whom you enjoy it.
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I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.
