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.

  

  Venus Williams
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• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
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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.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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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.

  

  Action Bronson
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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.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Real
  • Me
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
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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.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Important
  • Forget

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• 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.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
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• I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• 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.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to an audience. It's a chance to empathize, reflect, and learn, so I really want to understand before I sign onto a project: 'What's the potential of this thing? What are we seeing and learning? What are we empathizing to?'

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Example
  • Leave
  • Medical

• I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

  

  Deborah Kerr
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• I love making music. I love that it's unstructured, that I get to go perform and play in front of people, to meet new people. I love to do the thing I'm best at every day.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • People
  • Music

• An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth-a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth
  • Law

• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel