Elena Ferrante Quotes
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.Elena Ferrante
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
We're all idealistic when young.
Pat Oliphant -
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
Zoe Kravitz -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
Pat Sajak -
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Dakota Johnson -
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Gabrielle Union -
People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert -
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
Adam Cohen -
I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.
Fantasia Barrino
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
Dakota Fanning -
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold -
For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.
W. H. Auden -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
Mary Boykin Chesnut -
As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.
Pete Gallego
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Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.
Jesse Ventura -
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
Martin Rees -
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Oscar Wilde -
My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
Malik Jackson -
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley -
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.
Elena Ferrante