Lapo Elkann Quotes
I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
