Abbie Hoffman Quotes

I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Life
  • Change
  • Environmental

• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Brain

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Country
  • Maybe
  • Month

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• We all want to be the sexy girl.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Potential
  • Facebook

• It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Faith

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Society

• I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

  

  Patti LaBelle

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Night
  • Week

• When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • People
  • Health
  • Involved

• I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Country
  • Regret