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 have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
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O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.
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Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.
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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.
