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 think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.
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Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
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So just remember that this is the first sign of trouble- if books are banned, that means that things are going wrong.
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I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.