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Nicholas von Hoffman

"We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe."

Source : Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown

Nicholas von Hoffman

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“I miss my mother very, very much.”
“I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When I first got my Mac, I was exploring its possibilities and had fun with all of the sound hacking software, but I'm not interested in that approach. I toyed with the idea of releasing a 12-inch of all the stuff I did early on but good sense prevented me from doing so.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.”
“The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“What are you doing for others?”
“I never heard Coen brothers get defensive, ever. You get with these filmmakers doing the hardest work in the world, and they're not defensive. They're happy together, they crack jokes together, they have different opinions - and it doesn't bother them that they have different opinions. So no wonder their work is so good, because you're getting two for the price of one.”
“A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.”

Source : "The Jewish community could not exist for a day without its volunteers" by Jonathan Sacks, rabbisacks.org. October 29, 2012.

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