Eric Weiner Quotes
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.Eric Weiner
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
Dane DeHaan -
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
Larry J. Sabato -
I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
Fleur East -
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
Ed Gillespie
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
Tanya Roberts -
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers -
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
Vera Wang -
Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
D. A. Pennebaker -
Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
Rachel Stevens -
I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
Zendaya -
I'm a progressive.
J. B. Pritzker -
There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
Nathan Fillion -
O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus -
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
John Calvin
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
L. Neil Smith -
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.
Eric Weiner