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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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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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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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
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You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
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We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
