Eric Hoffer Quotes

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
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• But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

  

  Jack Nance
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• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
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• One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

  

  Laura Wasser
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• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
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• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.

  

  Ma Jun
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• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
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• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
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• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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• Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, 'Can you help us make investments?' That led to me getting into the real estate business.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
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• I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
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• I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
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• The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data.

  

  Jane Roberts

• Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

  

  Eric Hoffer
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