Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to... be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything's going to be okay.
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When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
