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Eric Hoffer Quotes

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Teacher Time Busy Learn Young

I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good cameraman, you know, I know what I'm doing. If the actors know what they're doing, we can all pull together, and it works.

Good Together Doing You Know Crew

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Life I Am Me Process My Life Will

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Hope Chance Admire Reinvent Get Ben

I like live-sounding things.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

Love Pain Writing Sometimes Pleasure

I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

Christopher Lee

Life Family Better Being Get Just

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

Chrystia Freeland

Politics Democracy Believe High Held

The more I practice the luckier I get.

Practice More Get Luckier

The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.

Beauty Girl Being Shaped Differently

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Music Today Experience Trying You

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Timothy Garton Ash

World Key Survival Liberty Embrace

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

People Will First Fail Must Actions

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