Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I'm not tied to any particular political line.
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
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If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
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The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness, and more broadly for the stability of the financial system.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
