Lapo Elkann Quotes
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
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You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
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It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
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No one goes through life with a whole heart.
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My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
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History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
