Eric Hoffer Quotes

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

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• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Weird

• I have a fearless but neutral personality.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Personality
  • Fearless

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • God
  • You
  • Thank God

• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Great
  • Achievement

• I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.

  

  Cam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Community

• Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Look

• I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Family
  • Come
  • Doers

• Napoleon's The One Concealer is amazing. Pantene Styling Treatment Foam makes my stupid-crazy hair behave, and I love hair powders such as Aveda Pure Abundance and Batiste Dry Shampoo.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Amazing
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Society
  • Without
  • Theology

• Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Marriage
  • Being
  • Course

• The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Family
  • Past

• It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Easy

• Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Film
  • Involved
  • Project

• I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Back
  • Republican

• We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Money
  • Job
  • American

• If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Money
  • Education

• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  

  William Blake
  • Doubt
  • Go Out
  • Sun And Moon

• Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fighting
  • Mistake
  • Poverty

• Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

  

  Petrarch
  • Moment
  • Place
  • Ennobles

• Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

  

  Eric Hoffer