Rick Hoffman Quotes
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I love to push myself.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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I don't study; I create.
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!
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Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
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When you get great stuff to do, you just don't want to let anybody down.
