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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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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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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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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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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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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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.
