Elena Ferrante Quotes
He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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Nobody is completely perfect.
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I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead.
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
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I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
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A world without war is not in the cards.
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He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.
