Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
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I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.
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To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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Despair is an act of resignation I am not willing to make.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
