Eva Hoffman Quotes

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

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• I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Enjoy

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Hope
  • Down
  • Unknown

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Space
  • End
  • Clean

• A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Information
  • Collaboration

• We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Government
  • Democracy

• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Conservative
  • Fiscal

• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Medicine
  • Been
  • Regulation

• I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • People
  • School
  • Influence

• I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Work
  • God
  • Think

• What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • American
  • Society
  • Fear

• This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Different
  • City
  • Dreams

• All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Great
  • Business
  • Struggle

• We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • American
  • Record

• We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Know
  • Right
  • Decided

• Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

  

  Peter York
  • Powerful
  • New
  • Wear

• Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

  

  Clinton Morrison
  • Job
  • Irishman
  • Ideally

• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  

  Enoch Fitch Burr
  • God
  • Death
  • Faith

• Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Forget
  • Conscious