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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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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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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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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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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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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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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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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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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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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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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'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
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I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
