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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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'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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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
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We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran.
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There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"
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It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.
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Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
