Pete Hoekstra Quotes

The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

Pete Hoekstra

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EnoughMilitaryNeedReliefJust

We have made tremendous progress. But there are still too many kids in our country who grow up feeling like they have to hold on to this secret about who they are because, if anyone finds out it, could cost them everything.

Jim Gray

ProgressGrowFeelingCountrySecret

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Joe Perry

WorkArtWarriorFeathersHanging

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

Jehane Noujaim

FatherMotherTravelThinkAmerican

I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them.

Matt Kuchar

CollegeFriendsPlayingOffHappiest

I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.

Jeff Mangum

MeNameNeverOutBecauseMade

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.

Stacey D'Erasmo

BeautifulMomentPerspectiveAmbition

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

Ronda Rousey

SellingProductOutOption

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicBestTransformationThinkKind

Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

Bryan Fogel

WalkPoliceEndDrivingTryingYou

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

WillIntellectVulgarityMinus

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

MotivationalYouWillFollowCraving

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

FreedomDoingRightLikeOught

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