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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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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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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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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Many of the people I work with that are half my age complain that they feel tired all the time. I tell them: 'Look at what you're eating, how much you are exercising, and how much sleep you are getting.'
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
