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

• In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

  

  Marco Bizzarri

• Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.

  

  Brendan Eich
  • Long
  • Game
  • Control

• I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Star

• I was terrible at desk jobs.

  

  David Chang

• Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

  

  Eric Hoffer