Dustin Hoffman Quotes

I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

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• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Food

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

  

  Little Richard
  • Up
  • God
  • Rock

• It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Moral
  • Compromised

• See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • War
  • Culture
  • Respect

• I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Why
  • Moral

• It's the one thing that's mine. My runs everyday aremy thing. It's my therapy, my hour to myself. Nobody can really take it away from me... It's such a huge part of me. I love to say that I'm a runner.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Everyday
  • Therapy
  • Runs

• God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Future

• I would gladly run a million marathons if doing so would save my girls from ever having to face cancer.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Cancer
  • Girls
  • Marathons

• Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Women
  • Girls
  • Black Men

• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Help
  • Me
  • Always

• Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Women
  • Success
  • Come

• The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Night
  • Reason
  • Festivals

• I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Girls