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Eric Hoffer Quotes

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Eric Hoffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Stars God Sky Space Back Passionate

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.

Jim Rash

Character Challenge Television Actor

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

Joan Jett

Life Woman People Me My Life Doing

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

John Chrysostom

Wealth Enemy Nothing More Than

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

Amy Smart

Opinion Better More Out Coming Than

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Steven Soderbergh

Change Business Great Time Die You

What I do when I act and direct is I do a small version, go a little bigger, do a medium one, an over-the-top one, and then even bigger than that. I'll do six readings of the line. And they're not all the same. Just so I know if I was wrong about what I should have done, I luckily have this more subtle version.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Small Wrong Go Know Done Line

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

Jonny Lang

Influence Think Wonder Blues More

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

Brooke Shields

Growth Confidence Week Sense Just

Philip Seymour Hoffman - I just think he's incredible.

Brooklyn Decker

Think Just Incredible He Philip

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Arthur Henderson

War World Civilization Prosperity

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

William Holden

Knowledge Aging Process Grow You

I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.

Sunil Nagaraj

Technology Science Person