Dustin Hoffman Quotes
Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.
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I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
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I have no inner monologue.
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I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.
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For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.
