Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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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.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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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.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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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.
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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.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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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.
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I was not an easy kid.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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Let stars choose what causes they want to endorse without making it an issue of loyalty to the state or country.
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I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.
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I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.
