Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
S. E. Hinton -
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali -
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid -
I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
Taylor Phinney -
People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
Laura Harrier -
When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
Katharine Cornell
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Barry McGee -
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.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
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.
Samira Wiley -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Edmund Phelps
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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.
Camille Paglia -
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.
Taliesin -
Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Lloyd Alexander -
We can be bought, but we can't be bored.
Lynn Fontanne -
We choose mania over boredom every time.
James Gleick
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Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.
Claire McCaskill -
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
Aristotle -
'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.
Diego Luna -
As an actress, I am very happy with 'Singh Is Bliing' because that was totally different from what I have done before.
Amy Jackson -
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Eugene McCarthy -
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer