Dustin Hoffman Quotes
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
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I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend.
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There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
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I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.
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You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast.
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Spanish is such an important language globally.
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I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.
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It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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It was good growing up in a small town. The whole town would shut down on Friday, 5 o'clock. If I'd been a bank robber or wanted to ransack a house, there wasn't nobody in town. The cops would go, too. They'd lead the bus to wherever, to Plano or Cooper or Commerce, wherever we was playing. It was something for a town to rally around, whether we had a winning season or a losing season. It was a place to go gossip, a place to go see friends.
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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
