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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The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.
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Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
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Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.
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Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.
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Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
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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.
