Erlend Loe Quotes
I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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You can never have enough talent.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
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The systems and controls developed at the armory were as critical to the development of what became known as the 'American System of Manufacturing' as the new metalworking machinery and machine tools.
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I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
