Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.
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It was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.
