Eric Hoffer Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.
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So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
