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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You alone are enough.
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The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
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I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
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The Newton of drift theory has not yet appeared. His absence need cause no anxiety; the theory is still young and still often treated with suspicion. In the long run, one cannot blame a theoretician for hesitating to spend time and trouble on explaining a law about whose validity no unanimity prevails.
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I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
