Pete Hoekstra Quotes
Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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In its brief 14-episode run, 'Firefly' gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.
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The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
