Florentijn Hofman Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
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I'm not going to defend myself the rest of my life.
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Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
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There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
