Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

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• I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Like

• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Group

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Family
  • Think
  • Care

• Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • May
  • Think
  • Feeling

• Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Being
  • Walk
  • Prison

• If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Body
  • Strength

• What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Age
  • Sometimes
  • Enemy

• You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Live
  • You
  • Old

• We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Soul
  • House
  • Party

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Kids
  • Action
  • Beginning

• No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Time
  • Long

• It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Absurd

• Confess and be hanged.

  

  Christopher Marlowe

• Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

  

  Pete Hoekstra