Florentijn Hofman Quotes
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.
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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
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There is a way of beating ISIS so easily, so quickly, so effectively, and it would be so nice...I know a way that would absolutely give us guaranteed victory...the problem is then everybody will take the idea, run with it and then people will forget where it came from...I ran it past two or three people. It's so simple. It's like the paper clip.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
