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.

Dustin Hoffman

• Poverty
• Tolstoy
• Dostoyevsky

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• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

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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 think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

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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.

  

  Karen Handel
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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 knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

  

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• I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

  

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• The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.

  

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• In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

  

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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.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Poverty
  • Tolstoy
  • Dostoyevsky