Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'
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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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If I'm thinking about a particular injury, then I'm already a step behind. If I'm so gun shy in the pocket and not worried about the receivers that are open down field, something's going to happen that's not going to get the job done. So my main focus is having confidence in myself knowing that I'm able to be myself when I'm out there.
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When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.
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I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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A judge may never subvert the law or twist it in any way to match the judge's convictions.
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
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It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
