Pete Hoekstra Quotes

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

Pete Hoekstra

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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.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• 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.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Moment
  • Eating
  • Breathing

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• 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.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Government

• 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.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • You
  • Myself
  • Director

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • World
  • Man
  • Like

• I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Know
  • Irish
  • Musicians

• I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Best
  • Kid

• I refuse to sit on my laurels.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Refuse
  • Sit
  • Laurels

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Hard
  • Profound
  • Novel

• 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.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Life
  • Work
  • Networking

• 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.

  

  Ed Walsh
  • Control
  • Times
  • Three

• The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • World
  • Me
  • Woman

• The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Global

• I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

  

  John Wayne
  • Why

• What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Power
  • Logic

• And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

  

  Petrarch
  • Men
  • Mountains
  • Heights

• ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

  

  Pete Hoekstra