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Pete Hoekstra Quotes

I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies throughout the globe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Intelligence House Meeting Privilege

If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.

Me Questions Mystery Easy Creating

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Birthday Children More Need Presence

When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.

Think You Way Others Always Happen

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

Matthew Stewart

Information Rhetoric Out Repeat Rank

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

Work Hard Work Succeed Doing You

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

Truth Dream Hunting Always Next

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Rodney Dangerfield

Father Time Remember Said More He

A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.

Chelsea Manning

Fear Power Identity Doctor Judge

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

Culture You Trends Need Evolving

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Criticism You Kind Barren Thing

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

William O. Douglas

Speak Authority Awe Us Bow Been

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily, I got in at the first attempt.

Art School Drama Royal First Social

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