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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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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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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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.
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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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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.
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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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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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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.
