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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.
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The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.
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Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
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Blame is for God and small children.
