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.

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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.
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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.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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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.
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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.'
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we've put in.
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Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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I'm taking dance lessons and getting stuck in. It's a great way of keeping fit, and it's obviously a big part of Bollywood movies, so I need to learn.
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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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.