Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
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Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.
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I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
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The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
