Eric Weiner Quotes

So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.

Eric Weiner

• Money
• House
• Moving
• Happiness
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• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Self-destructive
  • Inherently

• A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Person
  • Calling
  • Journalist

• I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • American
  • Friend
  • Best

• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Why
  • Brother
  • Stupid

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Heart
  • Care
  • Enjoy

• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Pop Music

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Best

• I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Technology
  • Need
  • Big

• I am hoping for a long career.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Career
  • Hoping

• To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Build
  • Core

• In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • You
  • Something

• People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Smooth as the hickory wind that blows from Memphis down to Apalachicola.It's 'Hi, y'all, did you eat well? Come on in, I'm sure glad to know ya.'Don't let this old gold cross and this Allman Brothers t-shirt throw ya.It's cicadas making noise with the Southern voice.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Gold
  • Wind

• I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Women
  • Culture

• For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Work
  • Singing

• Language is the house of the truth of Being.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Truth
  • House

• Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

  

  Philip Reeve
  • Up
  • May
  • Moving

• I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Nature
  • Die
  • Crazy

• I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Money
  • House
  • Moving