Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
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We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
