Elena Ferrante Quotes
I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
Ted Cruz -
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis -
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson -
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Pam Gems -
I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
Orlando Jones
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
Barry Bonds -
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie -
At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
Ted Nugent -
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
Samuel E. Morison -
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
Wangari Maathai -
I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
Omari Hardwick
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
Harlan Coben -
A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
Earl Long -
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
Oswald Chambers -
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
Oscar Wilde -
If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.
Anthony Robbins -
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.
Kristen Stewart -
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid -
I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.
Elena Ferrante