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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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
