Pete Hoekstra Quotes
Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
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People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.
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'Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.
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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.
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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
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Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.
