Eva Hoffman Quotes

The soul can shrivel from am excess of critical distance, and if I don't want to remain in arid internal exile for the rest of my life, I have to find a way to lose alienation without losing my self. But how does one bend toward another culture without falling over, how does one strike an elastic balance between rigidity and self-effacement?

Eva Hoffman

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• Culture
• Balance
• Remain
• Alienation

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• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Act
  • Pay
  • Give

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Real
  • American
  • Group

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Try

• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Body

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Man
  • Chance

• Human beings have always been mythmakers.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Always
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• It was intended as an earthly reflection of paradise not just for Mumtaz Mahal, but also for the visitors who would visit it over the years. In fact the larger Taj complex with its forecourt of the Jilaukhana complex and the surrounding bazar and caravanserai zone were meant to accommodate travelers.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Reflection
  • Paradise

• It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!

  

  Tamsin Greig

• Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

  

  Vanity

• Ita res accendent lumina rebus.

  

  Lucretius

• The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Respect

• I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Time
  • Discipline

• Gucci has great potential worldwide. Since it's inception in 1921, the brand has had a big visibility and many followers.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Great

• I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

  

  Bernadette Devlin
  • Women
  • Silence
  • Bored

• The soul can shrivel from am excess of critical distance, and if I don't want to remain in arid internal exile for the rest of my life, I have to find a way to lose alienation without losing my self. But how does one bend toward another culture without falling over, how does one strike an elastic balance between rigidity and self-effacement?

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Balance