Hoffman Model Quotes & Sayings

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised. — Rita Ora

I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it's still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb.
I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was. — Sophie Jordan

I like to buy expensive things. If I wear something that costs more than a month's salary, I amply feel that the rotting carcass of me is at least shrouded nicely. — Tarryn Fisher

I am not to be underestimated. Overestimated, maybe, but underestimated? No. — Saumya Sharman

The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done. — Lawrence Lessig

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top. — Bill Maris

As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel

Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have. — Patrick Joseph McGovern

As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer. — Chick Corea

People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves. — Dustin Hoffman

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be. — Meredith Monk

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking. — Ai Weiwei

Behind every crime lies an insult — Nicholas C. Rossis

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman. — Adam Michnik