Eric Hoffer Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
