Alice Hoffman Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.
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You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.
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I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt.
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I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
