Lapo Elkann Quotes
I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
