Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
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Sportsmen just do what they do. I'm not trying to be a role model. If there's any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can - from my good and my bad.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
