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 am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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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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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.
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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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I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.
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I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.
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By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.
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I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.
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Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.
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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.
