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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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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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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I wouldn't really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere - not just Indonesia.
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I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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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.
