Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
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Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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God delights to do ... impossible things through improbable people to impart exceeding grace to undeserving recipients.
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Blame is for God and small children.
