Abbie Hoffman Quotes

It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.

Abbie Hoffman

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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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • More
  • Nobody
  • Alumni

• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Lonely
  • Afraid
  • Top

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Kids
  • Friends

• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mankind
  • Peculiar
  • Transcend

• Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Support
  • Nice
  • Red

• 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.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• 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.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Child
  • Identity
  • Name

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Industry

• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Work
  • Art
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Fun
  • Find
  • Having Fun

• 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.'

  

  Fat Joe
  • Say
  • Lucky
  • Oh

• I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Almost

• 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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Sympathy

• I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.

  

  Uffie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Perception

• It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong. (p.71)

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen
  • Confidence

• It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.

  

  Abbie Hoffman