Eric Weiner Quotes
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.
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Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.
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Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.
