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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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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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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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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It was during this as a kid time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.
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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.
