Eric Weiner Quotes
Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
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If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
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Saramago is … interesting, but I don't think I would put it higher than that … he ventures too far into the realm of 'magic realism' for my taste. Reality itself is magical enough without inventing whimsicalities.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
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Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.
