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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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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The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.
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Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go on and do other things while, at the same time, she made sure she kept her stamp on those things and grew her business.
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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.
