Eric Hoffer Quotes

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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• The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Different
  • Best
  • Actor

• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • World
  • Marriage

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Question

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Justice
  • Studying

• Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Dumb
  • Even

• Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Finance

• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • History
  • Nature

• Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

  

  Jacques Plante
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

  

  Charles Brent
  • Men
  • Waiting
  • Listening

• It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Game

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Day
  • Wisdom
  • Insufficient

• Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • She
  • Nature
  • Mistake