Dustin Hoffman Quotes
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.
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The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.
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Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
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A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
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Patience is the secret to good food.
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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
