Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
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I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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When we begin to understand the magnitude of the Messiah's sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to be of more importance or to approach His significance in our lives. "For most of us, this understanding does not come all at once and likely will not be fully complete during our mortal sojourn. We do know, however, that as we learn line upon line, our appreciation for the Savior's contributions will increase and our knowledge and assurance of their truthfulness will grow.
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
