Eric Hoffer Quotes
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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Human trafficking is not a business model, it is a crime, and we are going to stop it.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
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My rubber burnin, turnin corners beatin like a CongoYou try to jack and pull the strap, it's ASAP prontoThe King of the South, every hood's head honchoI'm West Side certified, go where the fuck I wanna go.
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Time flies when you are anxious!
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
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I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
