Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I hate competition.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Obviously I read the newspaper sometimes, or I look on the Internet. When you go out in public, you hear things, and people ask you questions, and that's part of the game.
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Plus l'effort est grand, plus la gloire en est grande.
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I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
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Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
