Eric Hoffer Quotes

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Eric Hoffer

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Brand
  • Only

• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Love
  • Running
  • Speak

• I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Concept
  • Capitalist

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Past
  • Fighting
  • Class

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Career
  • Humour

• It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Decision
  • Act

• I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Feel
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Person

• I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Summer

• Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Care
  • Dating
  • Detroit

• Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Important
  • Racing
  • Finishing

• I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

  

  Camila Alves
  • American
  • Like
  • Now

• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judging
  • Misfortune
  • Trainer

• If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• Any time you get to play or dress differently or look differently, as an actress, that's incredibly exciting.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Time

• There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

  

  Eric Hoffer