Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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Anytime someone asks me to look at a new house with them, I'm like, 'Yes!'
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Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
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When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
