Eva Hoffman Quotes
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot.
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There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
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But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.
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When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.
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A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that's why I choose to travel and recognize the value of diverse points of view in medicine.
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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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I love clothes, but I love them in a very 'regular person' way.
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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I have a lot of respect for marriage.
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You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.
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Not Party City...Marty city. Marty is my dad. This is ONE of the costume closets at my parents house. This is normal...right???
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The worst losses come at night.
