Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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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.
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Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
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I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.
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The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.
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Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
