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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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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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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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?
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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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When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.
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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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.
