Pete Hoekstra Quotes
The U.S. cannot survive another four years of the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton regime.Pete Hoekstra
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
Garry Disher -
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
Vanessa Carlton -
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell -
Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
Rachel Miner -
Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
Adam McKay -
I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.
Tavi Gevinson
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
Karl Schroeder -
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
Gary Weiss -
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
Beau Willimon -
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Fran Drescher -
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
Aaron Sorkin -
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
Tatiana Maslany
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
Vikas Swarup -
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
Tariq Ramadan -
If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
Kage Baker -
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank -
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz -
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense - last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas -
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.
William Feindel -
It’s a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that’s almost animalistic.
Ellen von Unwerth -
The U.S. cannot survive another four years of the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton regime.
Pete Hoekstra