Florentijn Hofman Quotes
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I like things simple.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I am a just man.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
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Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
