Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.
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A few states have taken redistricting out of the hands of partisans and put them in the hands of fair-minded committees. Every state should do the same.
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If I'm man-to-man with a linebacker, well, that's an automatic win because I can run by him. If I'm one-on-one against a corner, I'm gonna catch it all day, because I'm twice his size.
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
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There was a close relationship between Mandela and the CBC.
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I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.
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'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
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When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.
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America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.
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'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
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To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
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Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.
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Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.
