James P. Hoffa Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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No one person is an island.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.
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I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.
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This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
