Lapo Elkann Quotes

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

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• If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • America
  • Red

• The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Proud
  • Equality

• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • English
  • Independent

• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Wealth
  • Glory
  • Eternal

• I'm not an architectural composer.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Composer
  • Architectural

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • First

• But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Earth
  • Living
  • Face

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Man

• To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Political
  • Revolution

• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Change
  • Myself

• To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Proud
  • Italian
  • Flag