Dustin Hoffman Quotes
I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
Quotes to Explore
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
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I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.
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It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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I have heard that man can acquire superhuman powers through it and perform miracles. I saw a man who had brought a ghost under control. The ghost used to procure various things for his master. What shall I do with superhuman powers? Can one realize God through them? If God is not realized then everything becomes false.
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I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations - to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
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In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.
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I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.
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Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
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«From the Prestige come a few little glazes with the appearance of plasticine.'
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Nothing ever grows in this rotten old holeAnd everything is stunted and lostAnd nothing really rocks and nothing really rollsAnd nothing's ever worth the cost. And I know that I'm damned if I never get outAnd maybe I'm damned if I doBut with every other beat I got left in my heartYou know I'd rather be damned with you.
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I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
