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'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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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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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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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
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I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.
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I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of being a foreigner. I was very lucky: I came to France, and I had enough money to study and to rent a studio. So, for me, it was not difficult.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
