Samuel Hoffenstein Quotes
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.
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I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
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Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.
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I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
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It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
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You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
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I don't want to take shots at professional actors, because obviously the great ones are great. But I do think that given the kind of stories I've been telling in my films, it's hard for me to imagine how professional actors would have done better. And it's easy for me to imagine how they would have done worse. Because I think a lot of what an actor is trained to do and a lot of what an actor's instincts point toward is clarification, is always making it clear what's happening in the story, how the character fits into the scene, what the character wants.
