Dustin Hoffman Quotes

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Dustin Hoffman

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• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Heart
  • Blues

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Teen

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • House
  • Thought
  • Animal

• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Conscious

• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Talent
  • Determination

• Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Hand
  • Wind
  • Architecture

• When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Congress

• The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• 'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• Well, if there's no 'war' that begins, but you say 'war begins', no one's going to buy your newspaper the next day because they'll be on to the fact that you don't know what you're talking about.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • War

• I would like to stress that the obligation of being Queen has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorrow, in the so-called 'big days', as well as in everyday life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Family
  • Joy

• Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Courage
  • Patience

• The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

  

  Bridgette Wilson
  • Time
  • Mom

• As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Remember

• I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Game
  • Simple

• That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop - to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

  

  Norm Coleman
  • School
  • College
  • Helping

• I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Truthful answer