Eva Hoffman Quotes
There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
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I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
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I always start a painting with the sky.
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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.
