Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
