Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes
Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
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Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes; each side can see the world through the other's eyes. That's what we should be encouraging. That's what we should be promoting.
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I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.
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In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.
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Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.
