Elena Ferrante Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Art must not serve might.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
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'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'
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I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.
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MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause
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Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.
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Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.
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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
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When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.
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A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.
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Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.
