Florentijn Hofman quote: "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."

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
FLORENTIJN HOFMAN

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Roberts...
SI ROBERTSON

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
J.K. ROWLING

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God ...
CASSANDRA CLARE

You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the p...
CASSANDRA CLARE

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

One is never alone with a rubber duck.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not af...
ABBY WAMBACH

Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when ...
CAT POWER

Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can...
BUD GRANT

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I ha...
KENDRICK LAMAR

There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plan...
EDDIE MURPHY

Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you'...
DENNIS BERGKAMP

I'm of the opinion that a duck does not change styles every time it crosses a state line. I thin...
JASE ROBERTSON

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've alway...
NANCY FRIDAY

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will sei...
GEORGE WILL

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. ...
STEVE CARELL

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it...
ANTON CORBIJN

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb...
IRWIN ROSE

I started playing the guitar when we started filming the pilot to 'Lost in Space,' which was...
BILL MUMY

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL

I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha...
CHANCE THE RAPPER

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate respo...
JARED DIAMOND

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I...
ACE FREHLEY

When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi...
TINK

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th...
NAOMIE HARRIS

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Ser...
AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wrac...
AARON ASHMORE

Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS

I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it...
TOM BODETT

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid....
CARLENE CARTER

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they have...
MARTIN PARR

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, ...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been ...
DARYL HANNAH

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others...
JAMES CAMERON

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now w...
BONO

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass'...
BAM MARGERA

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bull...
KAT GRAHAM

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you'r...
TYLER JOSEPH

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
ETHEL MERMAN

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their...
KRISTY SWANSON

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi...
STEVEN WRIGHT

You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I se...
JOHN LYDON

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - es...
CHAD KROEGER

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what'...
ERIC CARR

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that...
CHARLES DUHIGG

I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ...
EMILY RIOS

I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different o...
CHRIS O'DONNELL

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
GEORGE C. WALLACE

I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been lai...
LAYNE STALEY

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children...
HENNING MANKELL

I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm ...
ALLISON WILLIAMS

I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just d...
PAGET BREWSTER

When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
NANCY REAGAN

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When...
SIA

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't w...
EDDIE GUERRERO

It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de...
DYLAN WALSH

I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especial...
JASON ALDEAN

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always ...
BILL CARTWRIGHT

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseba...
BOB UECKER

I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doin...
WANDA SYKES

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
FLORENTIJN HOFMAN

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's ...
JOYCE MEYER

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on ...
SHAWN ASHMORE

When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ...
SHEPARD SMITH

There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will hav...
FRED UPTON

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I thi...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. W...
BORIS YELTSIN

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure...
HENRY ROLLINS

So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, ...
CRAIG SAGER

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven&#...
TYSON FURY

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.

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Florentijn Hofman

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

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