"We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door."

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Source : Eric Weiner (2008). “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World”, p.174, Hachette UK

Eric Weiner

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“There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.”
“Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in”
“Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than anyâ€”my own soul.”
“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

Source : Address to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, October 14, 1952.
“I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.”
“Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.”
“History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.”

Source : "Drawing Parallels Between Ancient Rome and the U.S. Today". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2006.
“I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.”

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