Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
