Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

Gaby Hoffmann

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Business
  • Trouble

• The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Never
  • See

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Moment

• I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Hope

• I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Brilliant

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Up
  • Never
  • Just

• It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Up
  • You
  • Nice

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Twitter

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Today
  • Day

• There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

  

  John Starks
  • Remember
  • Game

• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  

  Jesse Schell
  • Brother

• But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Men

• I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

  

  Albert Wynn
  • Strong
  • Support

• I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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