Eric Hoffer Quotes
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
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I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
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Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.
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That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us the future cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us the past cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.
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I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
