Eric Hoffer Quotes
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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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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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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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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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.
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Most actresses save their best gown of the award season for the Academy, so it truly is a red carpet full of the fashion's creme de la creme.
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
