Eric Weiner Quotes
People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Pair up in threes.
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We are small but we are many, we are many we are small; we were here before you rose, we will be here when you fall.
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That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
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There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.
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Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.
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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
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Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I can definitely eat more of some candy than I should, so I have found that if I have coffee or a chai latte, it curbs the sugar craving.
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People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.
