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Abbie Hoffman Quotes

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989

Topics

Television Group Modern Revolutionary

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Time Best I Am Me Doors Person

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

John Hickenlooper

Day Restaurant Better First Denver

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

Movies Mustache Same Always Role He

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

Win Think You Only Happens Both

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Music Trying You Go Out Tell

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Words Government Language Help Here

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

Father Mother Me Back Uncle Three

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

Always Dive Something How Learned

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

Family Think Matter Old How After

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

Thomas S. Monson

Good I Am Me Feel Good Stand Honor

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either.

Women Men Simple Black Dresses

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Great Woman America Wonder Create

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