David E. Hoffman Quotes
I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.
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Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business.
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
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A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
