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Eric Hoffer Quotes

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Compassion Soul Where Even Most

I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.

Time Style Art Amazing Think Loved

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

Robert Rauschenberg

Painting Enough Possibilities Find

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

Change Struggle Lose Security Take

Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

Pizza Cook Make Knows Every Loves

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Attitude You Late Now Vice Gone

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Government Surprise Way Days Respond

As a child, I used to see legends holding the 'black lady' and would think that I would get it someday.

Child Black Think Lady Legends See

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.

Me Weird Affirmation Source Watch

Growing up in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, I had a wonderful life, one that I have not experienced anywhere since, even after living in nine countries.

Clemantine Wamariya

Life City Growing Up Growing Living

Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show.

Character Name You Want Never Guy

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

Peter Landesman

Football Strange Years Going Odd

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Love Women Time Men Society Accept

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