Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
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LONG LIVE THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION!
