Florentijn Hofman Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
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To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
