Florentijn Hofman Quotes

In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

Florentijn Hofman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: April 16, 1977

Topics

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I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

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Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

Stan Wawrinka

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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

Sun Tzu

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It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

Tom Chapin

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No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Mary J. Blige

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Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

Julia Glass

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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.

Jonathan Levine

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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!

Jonathan Van Ness

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So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Dennis Muren

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What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

Derek Jeter

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What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

Colin Farrell

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

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