Eric Hoffer Quotes
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
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At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.
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[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
