Eric Weiner Quotes
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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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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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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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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 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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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
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We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
