Abbie Hoffman Quotes
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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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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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.
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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
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Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
