John Elkann Quotes
My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
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Fear controls you.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
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As long as we can imagine a better path, of course we are obligated to seek it. This is why unwarranted pessimism about our future is actually irresponsible.
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I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.
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If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
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What I do love is the traveling... and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera... It's an outlet. It's fun! If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.
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My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.
