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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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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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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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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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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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.
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In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.
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America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.
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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.
