Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
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You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
