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Related It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at eac... ERIC CLAPTON firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any ERIN HUNTER Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su... AMBER FAITH HUN I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance. MEG NEZAJ I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi ... NEIL PEART I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own... NEYMAR Ive created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake u... JOSé N. HARRIS Do you know a magazine called the National Enquirer? In the current issue, somebody drew it to my at... JACK BRUCE Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player. MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now ~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Its amazing, I cant ask for anything more as a birthday gift, ... Ive wanted to win a big race like ... BOBBY BUTLER John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton. BRETT YOUNG All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD Getting to play for the home folks, there on Lake Martin, with guys like Jeff Cook, man it dont get ... BRAD COTTER He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of e... LEANDER KAHNEY I watched him around guys like George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and I realized the look in their ey... STAN PERKINS Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions... JACK BRUCE Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist. CAROLE KING I've been blessed to have some of the greatest people that certainly I've ever met play for me. We a... BOB HUGGINS I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not... AMY COLLINS Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like... EAMONN WALKER Ive found the true meaning of love, when I laid my heart in your hands MARIE CHAIDEZ I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tri... TIM HARDAWAY We're a brand new line and we're just starting to learn each other, ... I think if we keep playing t... LUC ROBITAILLE Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea... EVA LANG And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me... EDDIE MURRAY I love Eric Clapton. ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ... HARRY S TRUMAN There are very important political calendars at play here for each of the leaders, EDWARD DJEREJIAN It was very important to me, because I learned how to play onstage at an early age. ALEXANDRE BOUZLOV No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB Kin... CARLOS SANTANA If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. STAN GETZ It was the last gig of the tour with him and the crew guys came out on stage wearing little white ta... DIERKS BENTLEY Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you... SHARON GLESS We've got to have a little fortune fall our way. Winning on Friday would be very important because I... CLAY NORTON Each game is its own entity. One week, your guys can be really outstanding. The next week, it's like... BOB CASULLO I thought that there should have been a penalty called on the play. Our guys played well all game; i... SARA ATUAIA Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL At this point we have to take it one game at a time, and play each game like its out last. ANDREW PATTERSON My family's always instilled that in me, just having integrity. There's been a lot of tough times th... CHRIS QUINN The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. CHET BAKER I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career. BEBE NEUWIRTH I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys. TIMOTHY OLYPHANT Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! THEODORE ROOSEVELT Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood. JEFFREY JONES Of course, because I was at the beginning of my career. For me, as a musician, to have a chance for ... MILES DAVIS Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck ... DAVID CASSIDY I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed ... MARIO LEMIEUX It's been my number all through my career, so it's important to me. DANNY GRANGER LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE ANUJ SOMANY I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank ... USAIN BOLT people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ At this stage of my career, to have a whole new array of experiences, to play in new stadiums and ne... KASEY KELLER At this stage of my career, to have a whole new array of experiences, to play in new stadiums and ne... KASEY KELLER I like to play against guys who have beaten me, especially early in the career, try to get them back... ROGER FEDERER Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. JOSH BILLINGS Hey, I copied every play I ever learned from guys who are a lot smarter than I am. NORM CHOW I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform. JANINA GAVANKAR We like to keep our schedule very competitive because we want to stay at that high level of play. MARCO CORONA I'm very grateful to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who have been so support... BARBRA STREISAND The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting condit... MARCUS DU SAUTOY I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn... STEVE PERRY ill treat you like a princess not because you deserve it but because every time i look at you its wh... PEDRO MAGALHAES Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the w... GREGG ALLMAN We've been playing like that the last couple games. We're starting to talk and communicate with each... DONN DAMOS I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I... MOSES MALONE We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things l... CHARLIE COLES When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, ... CARLOS SANTANA Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu... ARTEMUS WARD Guys like that are at a little disadvantage, playing against guys who have been under the gun their ... BOB GILDER This was a big step for us, in terms of playing like a team. That's the way you have to play. You ha... PATRICK SPARKS I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national televi... NOVAK DJOKOVIC I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton'... BRUNO MARS Having people you want to go out and play golf with is important in developing that competitive mind... ERIC LINDQUIST People like to see me play because I don't get in that much. ADAM HOWARD It's like our guys are living to play home games because that's where we play our best. We can't hav... ARMANDO JOHNSON We've been like the pioneers for the younger, smaller guys that come into the league now. What we've... WARRICK DUNN The fans have been with me throughout my career, not just when I was wrestling. JOANIE LAURER If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They j... DANIEL BRYAN My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ... TODD RUNDGREN These games are very important, because they won't play like the bottom teams. [Rutgers and Villanov... DEANNA GUMPF I don't choose to take a role to prove to someone what I can do. It's an August Wilson play. I met w... PHYLICIA RASHAD For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clap... NEIL JACKSON Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. ROBERT ENGLUND I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work... CAROLE KING When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very ... CARLA BRUNI He was very willing to step up and give his shot at trying to make this work. That is really comfort... ANDY BERTRAM I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv... WILL ROGERS It was fun to get to play with all these guys after playing against them my whole high school career... ZAC DAVIS He's just like one of the guys. He's a big kid, and just been great to play with. JAMIE KORAB He's such a great goalie and he's had such an awesome career that it's just great to play against gu... MATHIEU GARON Most of the guys who come here like the big crowds. They like the big stage. They like people yellin... MACK BROWN I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... COLIN HAY Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off eac... TARA STRONG I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet. KIERA DELLACROIX To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u... LADY GREGORY Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair. Its been hard and bare and rough p... LANGSTON HUGHES
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ERIC CLAPTON I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one. ERIC CLAPTON I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to m... ERIC CLAPTON I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It h... ERIC CLAPTON Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. N... ERIC CLAPTON My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, fo... ERIC CLAPTON I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. ERIC CLAPTON I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just ... ERIC CLAPTON I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha... ERIC CLAPTON I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... ERIC CLAPTON One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very ... ERIC CLAPTON I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ... ERIC CLAPTON One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. ERIC CLAPTON Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or al... ERIC CLAPTON I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl... ERIC CLAPTON I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are... ERIC CLAPTON It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at eac... ERIC CLAPTON I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right co... ERIC CLAPTON I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that y... ERIC CLAPTON I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose beca... ERIC CLAPTON Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I wa... ERIC CLAPTON I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds, ERIC CLAPTON They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around ... ERIC CLAPTON From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could t... ERIC CLAPTON Riding With The King. ERIC CLAPTON La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait... ERIC CLAPTON At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ... ERIC CLAPTON Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. ERIC CLAPTON For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ... ERIC CLAPTON Music became a healer for me. ERIC CLAPTON Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe ... ERIC CLAPTON I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I c... ERIC CLAPTON Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the nec... ERIC CLAPTON The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band. ERIC CLAPTON For me, it's about the music. I'm just the messenger, and I hope to do it as long as I live. ERIC CLAPTON I just think I'm OK, ... The object of most of my work has been to raise it above my standard. And s... ERIC CLAPTON What gives him the right to do that? ... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like po... ERIC CLAPTON Nathan is probably the closest friend I have in the music world. He's the most supportive and caring... ERIC CLAPTON Obviously, I am not going to say which one it is, but it is a guitar that has been around my house f... ERIC CLAPTON I think I probably am more influenced by the overall groove of the track, not even the song. If we p... ERIC CLAPTON It's not a pretence. I will have to work to support the way we live. ERIC CLAPTON It's been so long since I've been around something from somebody else that's inspired me. For the la... ERIC CLAPTON I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than... ERIC CLAPTON I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be, ERIC CLAPTON it's been up to me to inspire me. ERIC CLAPTON Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never fi... ERIC CLAPTON You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you'v... ERIC CLAPTON It's very hard, so I try and make it as engaging as it can be. But you have to face the fact that, n... ERIC CLAPTON Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete. ERIC CLAPTON The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of... ERIC CLAPTON It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to expres... ERIC CLAPTON I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just v... ERIC CLAPTON I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl... ERIC CLAPTON I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn... ERIC CLAPTON It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously... ERIC CLAPTON But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up an... ERIC CLAPTON Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to str... ERIC CLAPTON I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life. ERIC CLAPTON It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro... ERIC CLAPTON It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it com... ERIC CLAPTON I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate. ERIC CLAPTON In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express m... ERIC CLAPTON When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the trad... ERIC CLAPTON An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. ERIC CLAPTON I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening... ERIC CLAPTON Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. ERIC CLAPTON My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on... ERIC CLAPTON You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. ERIC HOLDER We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise. ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ... ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le... ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us... ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo... ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ... ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'... ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie... ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca... ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por... ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind. ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins... ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente... ERIC SCHMIDT When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ... ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as... ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra... ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ... ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important. ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better. ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci... ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud... ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu... ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it... ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee... ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning. ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st... ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int... ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&... ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t... ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t... ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for... ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs. ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ... ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc... ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene... ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st... ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators. ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think... ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life... ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ... ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s... ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ... ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop... ERIC ALTERMAN With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ... ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ... ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym... ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ... ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ... ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t... ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ... ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe... ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f... ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion. ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha... ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to... ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla... ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't... ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence. ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality. ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of... ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w... ERIC HOFFER Remembering is something God asks us to do over �... ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ... ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ... ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l... ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se... ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves. ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ... ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac... ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u... ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ... ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo... ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo... ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions. ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common... ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring... ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can... ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i... ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e... ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.... ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se... ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ... ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'... ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi... ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar... ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth... ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist... ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen... ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu... ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth... ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p... ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be. ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t... ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them... ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines. ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o... ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a... ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o... ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can. ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and... ERIC HOFFER