Dustin Hoffman Quotes

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

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• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Age
  • Dress
  • Appropriate

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Head
  • Poison
  • Iron

• Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Decisions
  • Youthful

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Trust
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • House
  • Obsessed
  • Cleanliness

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grateful

• I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Age
  • Think
  • Learn

• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Power
  • Government
  • Military

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what's right.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • Always
  • Advocate

• I'm a big Stephen King fan.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • King
  • Big
  • Stephen King

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Reputation
  • Build
  • Lawyers

• You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Care
  • Ashes
  • Toilet

• It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Power
  • Works
  • Device

• God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Working

• Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Leader
  • Sport
  • Rowing

• You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Argument
  • Opponents

• The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Film
  • Working
  • Act