Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.

Pete Hoekstra

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• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Protect

• My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • People
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

  

  Maggie Q
  • World
  • Deep
  • Fate

• Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Sex

• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Think
  • Know
  • Player

• The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Diversity
  • Conversation

• Kandinsky, Wassily – painter, printmaker and author – the first painter to base painting on purely pictorial means of expression and abandon objects in his pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Painting
  • Author

• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Fear is the enemy of logic.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Fear
  • Enemy
  • Logic

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Judge

• After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

  

  Luanne Rice

• Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Future

• I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.

  

  Blair Redford
  • Time
  • She
  • Friends

• I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Life
  • Father
  • Trouble

• Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.

  

  Pete Hoekstra