Lapo Elkann Quotes

I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

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• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

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• I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

  

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• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

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• I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

  

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