quotes about Jimmy Hoffa

“This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.”

Source : "Love & Hip Hop’s Erica Mena Goes ‘Underneath It All’". Interview with Thomas C. Burrell, www.parlemag.com. April 30, 2013.

“When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.”

“A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.”

“A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.”

“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?”

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”

“I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.”

“The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.”

“The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.”

“Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.”