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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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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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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It is time we admitted that we are not at war with 'terrorism'. We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
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I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.
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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.
