Eric Weiner Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.
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We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
