Eva Hoffman Quotes
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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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.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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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.
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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.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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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.
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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.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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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.
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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.
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I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.
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Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.
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Every need got an ego to feed.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
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Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.
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Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.
