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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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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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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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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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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For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
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I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.
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Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
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Emerging evidence suggests that people who are suffering from depression are unable to recognize novelty.
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Creating anything is hard.
