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Eric Hoffer Quotes

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Improvement Quality Results More

I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.

Work Good Looking Face End Look

Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.

Down Lost Policy Industry Economic

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

Work Walk People Better Walking

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

Jeannette Walls

Work Luck You Become Big Luckier

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Stephen Hopkins

Start Choice Audience Made Attempt

I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.

Texas Country New Island Farming

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

Best Money Believe Create Washington

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Reality Place Distance Scary Almost

When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

Time Better Comedy Trying You High

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

Character Lot Techniques Developing

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Change You Want Try Enemies Make

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

William Lashner

Hero Lawyer Matter Sound Write How

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