Dustin Hoffman Quotes
Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
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People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.
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When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
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I'm really happy in my own skin.
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There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the abuses of the Bush administration. That was post-9/11, so I think there was a lot of fear at the time about exactly what that meant - were they unpatriotic if they stood up?
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After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
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Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
