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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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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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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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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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
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We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
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A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
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Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
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Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.
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This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
