Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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Be where the world is going.
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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
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Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.
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I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.
