Eric Hoffer Quotes
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The camera looks into your soul.
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While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
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Come make me sticky. Dimitri to Honor
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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
