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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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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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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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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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.
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Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
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He who is never unjust has no need of laws.
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We spent a lot of time working with the new chassis today and testing some improved parts that Honda has brought from Japan. The bike's now really stable on the brakes and turning into the corner is much better, so we're getting there. It's still moving around a bit on the exit of corners and better traction is something we're working on. We're moving forward though and we've still got a lot of stuff to try.
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If once a man has come to the idea of a service which is not purely moral, but is ...... In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
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My dreams never died, they just changed. I still have dreams every day.
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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.
