Eric Weiner Quotes
For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.
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We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
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For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.
