Florentijn Hofman Quotes
I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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The worse that could happen has already happened to me.
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The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
