Dustin Hoffman Quotes
I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
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Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
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When one door is closed, many more is open.
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I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.
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I am the most loyal player money can buy.
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I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving job, so I could maintain my singing job at night. I put about 30 hours a week just for singing, going between two churches. And in order to afford that, I had to take a full time job so I could do my passion.
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Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
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We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
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If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
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I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
