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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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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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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I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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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.
