Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
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The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.
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I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
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If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes.
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The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.
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Words for being lost or for being found.
