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.

Eric Weiner

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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.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Sometimes
  • Mad
  • Communicate

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Country
  • Calm
  • Fundamental

• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poverty
  • Desperate
  • Haiti

• Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Intuition
  • Follow

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Young
  • First
  • Teenager

• 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.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Dead
  • Buried
  • Arrived

• Pair up in threes.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Pair

• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Single
  • Learning
  • Miracle

• 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.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Small
  • Fall
  • Rose

• That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

  

  Peter Bichsel
  • Teacher

• You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side.

  

  Joe Andrew
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • Fear
  • Marine

• I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • World
  • Believe

• I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Business
  • Fight
  • Issues

• 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.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Coffee
  • Atmosphere