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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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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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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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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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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You alone are enough.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.
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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in Japanese anime.
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I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
