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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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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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 don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
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For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
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There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.
