Elena Ferrante Quotes
Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.Elena Ferrante
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. Lewis -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi -
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
Landon Donovan -
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch -
Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
Frances McDormand
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
Natalie Dormer -
Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
Fiona Apple -
I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
Tamsin Egerton -
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
Nate Silver -
You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
Orson Scott Card
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
Orson Scott Card -
I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
Harry Browne -
Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
Matt Lauer -
I made music just for myself.
Kali Uchis
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I love writing music.
Mary Steenburgen -
I would love to continue to model but also have a family.
Alek Wek -
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Krzysztof Kieslowski -
For me, Love is something very pure.
Michael Jackson -
I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
Raymond Smullyan -
Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
Elena Ferrante