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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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Women
  • May
  • Weird

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• I'm not a good guitar player.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Good
  • Player
  • Guitar

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• 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.'

  

  Patina Miller
  • Singing
  • Magic
  • Dancing

• 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.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Up
  • Revolution

• You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Patience

• 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.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Done
  • Growing

• Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Wish
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Me
  • Film
  • Magic

• No one can say that democratizing financial services is bad. It is good for communities, countries, the global economy, and educational progress.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Progress

• I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Family
  • Keep

• At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mother

• We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.

  

  John Chilcot

• Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Giving

• One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Life
  • Things
  • Actor