Abbie Hoffman Quotes
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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I don't like possessions.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
