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.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Need

• I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Love
  • Need
  • Marry

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Information
  • Trade
  • Sit

• 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.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Trying
  • Need
  • Far

• 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.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Never
  • Car
  • Need

• Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Never
  • Need
  • Carry

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Need

• Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Need
  • Her

• The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Need
  • Bread
  • Hood

• Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

  

  Major Owens
  • Up
  • Internet
  • Information

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Real
  • Help
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Food
  • Need
  • Gym

• I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Need
  • Say
  • Outdoors

• It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Information
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Information
  • Vulnerable

• It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Story

• Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

  

  Stan Coveleski
  • Baseball
  • Worrying

• I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Fun
  • Relationship
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Need
  • Information
  • Switzerland