Abbie Hoffman Quotes
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.
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I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
