Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You’re here now. We’re working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up.
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Le agghiacciò il sangue e impallidille il volto.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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¡Sí se puede!
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I was given opportunities not extended to my fellow soldiers, I embraced those opportunities to set the record straight.
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I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.
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The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
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Governing has always been hard.
