Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
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I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and as far as I was concerned a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.
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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
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Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
