Elena Ferrante Quotes
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over.
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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I think it tells the truth and it cuts to the heart of so many profound aspects of human experience unlike many musicals, which cover more frivolous topics.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.
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My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.
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Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?
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In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate. She who was revered and worshiped by early man because of her power to see the unseen will once again be the pivot—not as sex but as divine woman—about whom the next civilization will, as of old, revolve.
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We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
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I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
