Eric Hoffer Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I was a tomboy.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.
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All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
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The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
