Pete Hoekstra Quotes

From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Particular

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Experience
  • You
  • Greek

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Successful

• I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Romantic

• Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Healthy
  • Stand

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• Knowledge is power.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Life
  • Why
  • Funny

• If we don’t change things and address the issues, this sport doesn’t survive

  

  Claire Williams
  • Change
  • Issues
  • Survive

• Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Money
  • Experience
  • American

• From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Experience
  • House
  • Service