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Pete Hoekstra Quotes

An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 30, 1953

Topics

Quality Intelligence Me House Really

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listening Through Own Only Desires

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Good Beauty Power Rain Grief Me

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

People Think Citizenship You Done

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

Believe I Believe Never Him Air Met

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

Beautiful Time Black Same Metal

When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.

You Student Way Project Over Finish

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

Writing Want Sing Songs

I remember hitting the ball, and I didn't even realise where it went, and then I turned over, and I see the official bending down holding his eye.

Denis Shapovalov

Eye Remember Down Over See I See

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

Basketball World Thinking View Back

I don't get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair.

Dresses Fair Not Fair Wear Keep Get

Each time you see a Western movie, it's a good reflection of where things are in the world at that time. It's probably one of the purest forms of cinema that really tells you where the world is.

Good Time Reflection World You See

Black churches have long been targets of white supremacists who burned and bombed them in an effort to terrorize the black communities those churches anchored. One of the most egregious terrorist acts in U.S. history was committed against a black church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.

History Effort Black Church Long

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