Eric Hoffer Quotes
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
