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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'You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power-something that in fact brings both in its train.''And what is that?'The count leaned forward. 'Knowledge.'
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.
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When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.
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Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
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The system, though it may not be perfect in every part, is, upon the whole, a good one; is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit; and is such an one as promises every species of security which a reasonable people can desire.
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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.
