Eric Hoffer Quotes

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Eric Hoffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Topics

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All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

Tony Judt

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Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

Robby Krieger

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Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

Ron Johnson

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Mediocrity is underrated.

Mary-Louise Parker

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Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Luciano Berio

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Fitness really changed my life.

Jon Jones

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Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Brooke Shields

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I am not a party girl.

Bridget Hall

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If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

Alison Sweeney

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With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

Winslow Homer

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