Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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'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.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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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.
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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.
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
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There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.
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I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
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Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.
