Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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This is the only thing I know.
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Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
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For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
