Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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No one is 'born gay.' The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
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Am I not with hosts making a din? I would not cease, between two hosts, without gore. Am I not he that is called Gorlassar? My belt was a rainbow to my foe.
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Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Here in a little lonely roomI am master of earth and sea,And the planets come to me.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.
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What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.
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Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again.
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As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.
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I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
