Lapo Elkann Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.
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The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.
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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
