Eric Hoffer Quotes
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.
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We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.
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You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
