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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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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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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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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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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A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.
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I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
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My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.
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It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.
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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.
