Eric Hoffer Quotes
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I believe in forgiveness.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
