Pete Hoekstra Quotes
Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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People trash talk me.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.
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Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
