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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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've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.
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If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain cancer, because it means that some small part of your mind has figured out how to turn off all the other things.
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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I looked across the ring and realised I wanted to go home
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
