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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It is one of those contradictions of life that although measurement always carries uncertainty, the uncertainty in measurement is rarely discussed.
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Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
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I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.
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So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.
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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.
