Pete Hoekstra Quotes

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Pete Hoekstra

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• I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Money
  • Care

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Character
  • Truth

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Today
  • Same
  • Globalization

• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Just
  • Watch
  • Lot

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Working
  • Students
  • Succeed

• I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Radio

• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Political

• When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Time
  • See

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Job
  • Success

• When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Country

• All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Questions
  • Issues
  • Voices

• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Military

• No one promised life would be easy or that the game wouldn't change without warning. There you are, all ready to pass Go and collect two hundred dollars, and suddenly Colonel Mustard is trapped in the conservatory, ranting and raving and waving a wrench, and no one knows what exactly a conservatory is or why anyone thought a wrench - of all things - would be a good murder weapon, or what branch of the military Colonel Mustard even served in! Has anyone seen his credentials?

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Money
  • Game
  • Change

• It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.

  

  W. Sangster
  • Work
  • Sorrow
  • Drunk

• The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Military
  • Islamic