Elena Ferrante Quotes
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.Elena Ferrante
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Walid Jumblatt -
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness -
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.
Irene Rosenfeld -
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Orson Scott Card -
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.
Maimonides -
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.
Wallis Simpson -
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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.
Anthony Rapp -
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.
Bertrand Russell
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie -
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.
Edward VIII -
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.
Frank Pallone -
With our hectic lives, a dose of comedy is a must.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy -
I'm a Fritos Burrito guy. Me and Taco Bell have a love relationship on Twitter; they follow me. Out of 16 people they follow me, so I'm very loyal to my girlfriend, Taco Bell.
Jacob Whitesides -
I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.
Archie Panjabi
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If a concept lacks an essence, nothing will ever be found that completely fits that concept. If you are lacking in the concept of human being, it will immediately expose that you are something individual, something that cannot be expressed by the term human being, thus, in every instance, an individual human being.
Max Stirner -
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
Vaclav Havel -
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
Angus Deaton -
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
Elena Ferrante