Paul Hoffman Quotes

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

Paul Hoffman

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• Solitude
• Others
• Himself

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• For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

  

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• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

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• The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

  

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• It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

  

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• Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

  

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• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

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• I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.

  

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• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

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  • Happy
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• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

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  • Experience
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• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

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  • Sports
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• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

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  • Mind
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• Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

  

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• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

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• I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.

  

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• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...

  

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• Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

  

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• Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

  

  Paul Hoffman
  • Being
  • Solitude
  • Others