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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This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
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I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.
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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.