Eric Hoffer Quotes
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
