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 have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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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 still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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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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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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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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All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.
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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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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.
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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.
