Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'
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God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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'I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.'
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
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I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
