John Elkann Quotes
Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
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Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
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I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.
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Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.
