Lapo Elkann Quotes

I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

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• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Child
  • Insurance
  • Lie

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Like
  • Consistency

• How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Working

• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Fun
  • Laughter
  • Healing

• I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Age
  • Working
  • Lucky

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Future
  • Audience
  • Engagement

• Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Books
  • Over
  • Thousand

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• I don't crave Hollywood.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Hollywood
  • Crave

• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

  

  Mary Harris Jones
  • People

• When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hair

• I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

  

  Anant Agarwal
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Energy

• Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  

  Luis Barragan
  • Architecture

• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Energy
  • City
  • New York