Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
