Pete Hoekstra Quotes
Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Being evil is easy.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
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I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, 'Wow, I can be successful.'
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.
