Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Smart

• The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Time
  • Music

• Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Humor
  • Illusions

• I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Time
  • Place
  • Memory

• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • System
  • Protection
  • Quota

• You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

  

  Bradley Whitford

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

  

  Eric Hoffer