Elena Ferrante Quotes
I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they’re going and why.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
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Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions...We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.
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Most American men of affairs have learned well the rhetoric of public relations, in some cases even to the point of using it when they are alone, and thus coming to believe it.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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I am looking for excellence. Anyone can struggle but they cannot make a ‘perfect’ film.
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I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'
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I've never known a case yet where worry helped.
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Faites que l'on vous craigne, et je ne craindrai rien.
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I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they’re going and why.
