Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I just want to do my job.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.
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I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.
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The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.
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Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
