Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
Larry Page
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
Camille Paglia
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
G. Willow Wilson
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
Cal Hubbard
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
Pat Summerall
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
Laura Dekker
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Viktor Korchnoi
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. Sebald
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
Samuel Fuller
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
Randall Kennedy
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The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.
Fidel Castro
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
H. L. Mencken
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
Larry Wall
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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
Doris Lessing
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Who has not served cannot command.
John Florio
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I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
Kris Allen
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
Christian Bale
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I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.
Walt Whitman
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer