Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror.
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
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I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.
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After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.
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I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.
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I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
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Creating anything is hard.
