Eva Hoffman Quotes
The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.
Quotes to Explore
-
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
-
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
-
I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
-
Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
-
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
-
I want to be judged on my own merits.
-
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
-
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
-
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
-
Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
-
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
-
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
-
I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
-
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
-
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
-
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
-
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
-
I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
-
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
-
The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.
-
The answers from Genesis tell us that there was no death, bloodshed, disease, or suffering before sin. All these things are a consequence of sin. That's why Christians can't believe in millions of years for the fossil record - it's a horrible record of death, disease, and suffering, which couldn't have happened in the Garden before Adam fell.
-
It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
-
The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.
