Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
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For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.
