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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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
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Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
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The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.
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The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.
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It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
