Albert Hofmann Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, 'Prithee,' said Cleomenes, 'give me cocks that will kill fighting.'
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
