Eric Weiner Quotes
Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
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If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.
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I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.
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It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.
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The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
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I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.
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The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.
