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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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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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'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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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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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
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What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
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Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.
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I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
