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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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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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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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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The strong man is strongest when alone.
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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.
