Pete Hoekstra Quotes
The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.
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We shred every day.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
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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.
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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.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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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.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
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Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.
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Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
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Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.
