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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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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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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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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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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From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
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I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
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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.
